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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 describe as a symptom of cultural crisis?
(a) Bureaucratic regulation.
(b) Technological incompetence.
(c) Outrageous profits.
(d) Administrative impudence.

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

3. What effect do flowers have on love, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) Praise.
(b) Celebration.
(c) Sacrilege.
(d) Sanctification.

4. What did Bataille write while he was working?
(a) A medieval romance.
(b) Book reviews.
(c) Articles on philosophy.
(d) Art criticism.

5. How did Bataille relate to Andre Masson's drawings?
(a) He saw himself as the lines and the paper themselves.
(b) He saw himself as the self in flight.
(c) He saw himself as the entire cosmos.
(d) He saw himself as the sick man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did "[Dream]" originate?

2. Who is Elisabeth Judas-Forster?

3. Where did Bataille work until 1942?

4. Why is classical utility theory inadequate, in Bataille's opinion?

5. When did Bataille publish "W.C."?

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