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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 value does money articulate for workers?
(a) The value of their status.
(b) The value of their personal worth.
(c) The value of what they produce.
(d) The value of their ideas.

2. What does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?
(a) Oedipal terror.
(b) Homoerotic terror.
(c) Obsession with excrement.
(d) Obsession with priests.

3. What was Bataille being punished for in "[Dream]"?
(a) Staying up too late.
(b) Seeing his parents naked.
(c) Playing with a hoop.
(d) Wetting himself.

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

5. When did Bataille form the Popular Front?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1935.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bataille describe his thinking in "Popular Front in the Street"?

2. What does Bataille say is the only religion for fascists?

3. What did Hegel claim about nature?

4. What do volcanoes serve as, in "The Solar Anus"?

5. What does Bataille say the world offers modern man to love?

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