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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III (1936-1939).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Bataille born?
(a) Reims.
(b) Nancy.
(c) Pau.
(d) Paris.

2. How does Bataille describe his father?
(a) Financially secure.
(b) Frequently ill and mentally unstable.
(c) Blind, paralytic and syphilitic.
(d) Depressed and alcoholic.

3. Whom does Bataille contrast to the sovereign in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) The Jews.
(b) The middle class merchant.
(c) The ignoble workers.
(d) The aristocrats.

4. What kinds of expenditure does artistic production require?
(a) Real or symbolic expenditure.
(b) Religious or secular expenditure.
(c) Public or patron expenditure.
(d) Patron or market expenditure.

5. What does Bataille say about monsters in "The Deviations of Nature"?
(a) That they are the best place to gain insight into people's feelings about themselves.
(b) That they represent the opposite of geometric regularity of form.
(c) That they are projections out of the ugliest part of humanity.
(d) That they are necessary to keep people in line.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did George Bataille die?

2. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?

3. What does Bataille say Nietzschean pride comes from?

4. Which of the following is one of the directions recomposition of society can take?

5. What does Bataille describe as the result of individuals asking critical questions, in "Nietzschean Chronicle"?

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