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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 type of men's 'being' does Bataille compare in "The Labyrinth"?
(a) A worker and a store-keeper.
(b) An important man and a wanderer.
(c) A worker and a sovereign.
(d) A man and a woman.

2. What does Bataille use as evidence of his position on dialectics?
(a) It does not account for avarice in the proletariat.
(b) It is a law made by interested people trying to hide their interests.
(c) It underestimates the value of aesthetics.
(d) It cannot explain the growth from child to adult.

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

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

5. What does Bataille describe as the only truly liberating act?
(a) Lovemaking.
(b) Revolutionary destruction.
(c) Art.
(d) Suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relationship do the writings in Section II have to the writings in Section I?

2. What does the mole stand for in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?

3. What did Breton call Bataille?

4. What paradoxical action does Bataille describe in "Materialism"?

5. What does Bataille say pyramids ensure?

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