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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 are the rats doing in "[Dream]"?
(a) Eating garbage.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Eating each other.
(d) Trying to bite.

2. What does Bataille say his father looked like in "[Dream]"?
(a) A vulture.
(b) A house.
(c) A star.
(d) A toad.

3. What feeling does Bataille exaggerate in "The Lugubrious Game"?
(a) Respect.
(b) Mournfulness.
(c) Irreverence.
(d) Admiration.

4. What does Bataille say about the knife whose handle and blade are changed indefinitely?
(a) It is a capitalist knife, with its value in its use alone.
(b) It partakes of the eternal form of knife-ness.
(c) It is no longer the same knife.
(d) It is a modern knife, with replaceable parts.

5. For what field did Bataille go to school?
(a) Renaissance art critic.
(b) Writer.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Medieval librarian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?

2. What aspect of the Marx/Hegel dialectic did professor Hartmann test?

3. What does Bataille say the theory of conspicuous consumption is used for?

4. What does Bataille say is analogous to the maternal breast?

5. What did professor Hartmann dispute about the treatment of the Marx/Hegel dialectic?

(see the answer key)

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