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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. What are the two classes Bataille divides consumption into?
(a) Sacrificial consumption and gift consumption.
(b) Conservation of life and productive activity.
(c) Productive consumption and wasteful consumption.
(d) Conspicuous consumption and invisible consumption.

2. What did Engels work for eight years to develop, but ultimately disavow?
(a) A dialectics of manufacturing.
(b) A dialectics of religion.
(c) A dialectics of mathematics.
(d) A dialectics of nature.

3. What kind of eye does Victor Hugo describe in a poem Bataille cites?
(a) An eye of judgment.
(b) An eye of conscience.
(c) An eye of longing.
(d) An eye of surveillance.

4. How does Bataille describe the Mithraic cult ritual of the sun in "Rotten Sun"?
(a) A priest stares into the sun to have a vision.
(b) A worshiper puts out a priest's eye.
(c) A priest cuts a victim's throat on an altar.
(d) A priest spatters a bull's blood on worshipers underneath.

5. What are the two forms of heterogeneity Bataille introduces in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) The policeman and the drunkard.
(b) The Marxist revolution and the capitalist marketplace.
(c) The bourgeois merchant and the Jewish banker.
(d) The sovereign and the worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?

2. When did Bataille form the Popular Front?

3. What was the purpose of the Popular Front, in Bataille's account?

4. What relationship between events and things is Bataille describing in "The Solar Anus"?

5. When did Bataille deny his faith?

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