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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. What does Bataille say is the only virtue for fascists?
(a) Language.
(b) Germany.
(c) History.
(d) Religion.

2. What does Bataille say is the contradiction in Christians worshiping God?
(a) They keep the poor down while their worship exalts them.
(b) They hold people to scripture in private life but not in the marketplace.
(c) They elevate God's power, but claim it for themselves alone.
(d) They only go to church one day a week, but work the other six in profane employments.

3. What feeling does Bataille say grows in response to revolutionaries?
(a) Messianism.
(b) Distrust.
(c) Faith.
(d) Disillusionment.

4. What did Bataille describe in "The Lugubrious Game"?
(a) Bestiality.
(b) Sex play with eyeballs.
(c) Anal fixation.
(d) A brown smudge.

5. From what does Bataille say Alfred Baumler distilled a doctrine of the people's will to power?
(a) Nietzschean metaphor.
(b) Nietzschean religion.
(c) Nietzschean politics.
(d) Nietzschean contradiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bataille describe the mandrake root?

2. What writer coined the term conspicuous consumption?

3. Whom does Bataille say can never touch the reality of earth?

4. What does Baumler call revolution?

5. Where did Bataille work until 1942?

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