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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. How should materialism be disclaimed, in "Materialism"?
(a) By excluding all idealism.
(b) By including all idealism.
(c) By replacing idealism with matter.
(d) By superseding idealism with dialogue.

2. What approaches to Hegel's philosophy did Nicolai Hartmann compare?
(a) Feminist and modernist.
(b) Historical and philosophical.
(c) Practical and theoretical.
(d) Verbal and reality-based.

3. Who is Elisabeth Judas-Forster?
(a) Bataille's girlfriend.
(b) A critic of Bataille's.
(c) Andre Masson's lover.
(d) Nietzsche's sister.

4. When does an obelisk cease to be meaningful?
(a) When the military leader who erected it dies.
(b) As soon as the authority it symbolizes becomes conscious.
(c) When the people have more important needs.
(d) When the political party that built it is voted out.

5. What paradoxical action does Bataille describe in "Materialism"?
(a) The attempt to translate sex into language.
(b) The desire to stop using language for natural functions.
(c) The attempt to free the eye from aesthetics.
(d) The attempt to rid one's thoughts of spiritualism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What film does Bataille cite in "The Eye"?

2. What does Bataille say would result from a difference of events in his experience?

3. How does Bataille describe the Mithraic cult ritual of the sun in "Rotten Sun"?

4. From what does Bataille say Alfred Baumler distilled a doctrine of the people's will to power?

5. What does Bataille describe as the result of individuals asking critical questions, in "Nietzschean Chronicle"?

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