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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 tone did Andre Masson establish in his drawings?
(a) Ashen-biological.
(b) Biological-cosmological.
(c) Cosmological-orgiastic.
(d) Orgastic-ashen.

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

3. What strategy does Surrealism use for presenting images?
(a) Images are piled on, one after another.
(b) The images are distorted beyond recognition.
(c) Opposite images are contrasted.
(d) Layers of each image are stripped away until the essential truth is apparent.

4. How would you describe the images Bataille presents?
(a) Incongruous.
(b) Cumulative.
(c) Nonsensical.
(d) Complementary.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bataille say poor people cannot stop rich people from doing?

3. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?

4. What is the benefit Bataille sees to having more than one meaning in his work?

5. What did Hegel claim about nature?

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