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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section II (1932-1935).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What claim does Bataille discuss in "The Deviations of Nature"?
(a) That nothing is more horrifying than rats at carnivals.
(b) That nothing is more horrifying that carnival freaks.
(c) That nothing is more horrifying than man.
(d) That nothing is more horrifying than snakes.

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

4. What does Bataille define as a way to humiliate, defy, or obligate a poorer person as a show of destruction of wealth?
(a) Government subsidies.
(b) Welfare.
(c) Public Assistance.
(d) Potlatch.

5. Whom does Bataille contrast to the sovereign in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) The aristocrats.
(b) The Jews.
(c) The middle class merchant.
(d) The ignoble workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the cross demand, at the end of "Sacrifices"?

2. What tone did Andre Masson establish in his drawings?

3. How do philosophers use natural forms, in "The Language of Flowers"?

4. In whose hands does Bataille describe conspicuous consumption as a tool?

5. When was "Acephale" published?

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