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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. Where did "[Dream]" originate?
(a) In Bataille's childhood obsession with eyes.
(b) In Bataille's marriage.
(c) In Bataille's psychoanalysis.
(d) In Bataille's imagination.

2. When did Bataille publish "W.C."?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1902.

3. Where did Engels look for examples to test the dialectic method of Marx and Hegel?
(a) Nature.
(b) Politics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Lived experience.

4. What do flowers witness, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) The reason for the plants' existence.
(b) Nothing but a moment in the life of the plant.
(c) The life and death of love.
(d) The architectural order of fields and forests.

5. How does Bataille describe his thinking in "Popular Front in the Street"?
(a) He said he could not escape from the logic of fascism.
(b) He said he had a paradoxical fascist tendency.
(c) He said he had an indomitable democratic streak.
(d) He said he worshiped the masses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille say is the contradiction in Christians worshiping God?

2. What interrupts the road in "[Dream]"?

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

4. When did George Bataille die?

5. How would you describe the images Bataille presents?

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