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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. How does bourgeois society enslave and degrade poor men, in Bataille's opinion?
(a) By preventing them getting medical attention.
(b) By showering them with goods.
(c) By forcing them to compete with machines.
(d) By keeping them poor.

2. What does the mole stand for in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Materialists.
(c) Proletarianism.
(d) God.

3. What did "Acephale" primarily consist of?
(a) Fascist rants.
(b) Anarchistic literature.
(c) Bataille's writing.
(d) Surrealist writing.

4. What was the purpose of the Popular Front, in Bataille's account?
(a) To oppose fascism in France.
(b) To overthrow the Vichy government.
(c) To oppose Hitler.
(d) To oppose immigrants in France.

5. How should materialism be disclaimed, in "Materialism"?
(a) By replacing idealism with matter.
(b) By including all idealism.
(c) By superseding idealism with dialogue.
(d) By excluding all idealism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille use as evidence of his position on dialectics?

2. Whom did the Popular Front join with?

3. What does Bataille say is the only virtue for fascists?

4. What do flowers witness, in "The Language of Flowers"?

5. When does being become undefined, according to Bataille?

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