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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 "The Language of Flowers" end?
(a) With students strangling a young woman.
(b) With Sade tossing flower petals into a ditch of manure.
(c) With Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch putting out a priest's eye.
(d) With a girl being sent away to school.

2. What did Engels work for eight years to develop, but ultimately disavow?
(a) A dialectics of manufacturing.
(b) A dialectics of religion.
(c) A dialectics of nature.
(d) A dialectics of mathematics.

3. What principles does Bataille say men associate with the feet in "The Big Toe"?
(a) Powerlessness and subservience.
(b) Evil and dark.
(c) Subversion and power.
(d) Labor and evil.

4. What claim does Bataille discuss in "The Deviations of Nature"?
(a) That nothing is more horrifying that carnival freaks.
(b) That nothing is more horrifying than snakes.
(c) That nothing is more horrifying than man.
(d) That nothing is more horrifying than rats at carnivals.

5. How long does Bataille ride his bicycle for in "[Dream]"?
(a) Until darkness descends.
(b) Until he wakes up.
(c) Until he falls.
(d) Until he finds his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille describe as a symptom of cultural crisis?

2. What does Bataille's 'me in the void' realize in "Sacrifices"?

3. What does Bataille say profit leads to, in "The Labyrinth"?

4. What critique does Bataille make in "The Critique of the Foundations of Hegelian Dialectic"?

5. Whom did the Popular Front join with?

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