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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 aspect of the Marx/Hegel dialectic did professor Hartmann test?
(a) Descriptive accuracy.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Reasoning.
(d) Diagnostic accuracy.

2. Who introduced Bataille to surrealism?
(a) Marcel Duchamp.
(b) Michael Leiris.
(c) Joan Miro.
(d) Andre Breton.

3. How do men express their 'being', in "The Labyrinth"?
(a) By attaining their goals.
(b) By struggling for unreachable satisfactions.
(c) By rebelling against themselves constantly.
(d) By accepting the duality of their nature.

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

5. What writer coined the term conspicuous consumption?
(a) Engels.
(b) Veblen.
(c) Marx.
(d) Hegel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect do flowers have on love, in "The Language of Flowers"?

2. What creatures' 'being' does Bataille compare in "The Labyrinth"?

3. Which of the following is one of the directions recomposition of society can take?

4. How did Andre Masson establish the tone of his book of drawings?

5. Where did "[Dream]" originate?

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