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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 was Nietzsche's life dominated by, in Bataille's account?
(a) Aggression toward the social world.
(b) Puzzles in which he could see the nature of society.
(c) Stifled affection for a woman.
(d) Obsession with a lost world.

2. What were Bataille's feelings for Breton?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Supplication.
(c) Hostility.
(d) Admiration.

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

4. How does Bataille describe producing and selling in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?
(a) As excretory phases.
(b) As revolutionary phases.
(c) As primitive phases.
(d) As consumptive phases.

5. What does Bataille describe as the only truly liberating act?
(a) Revolutionary destruction.
(b) Lovemaking.
(c) Art.
(d) Suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?

2. How is the question of 'what exists compared to what appears' resolved, in "Sacrifices"?

3. What does Bataille say is analogous to the maternal breast?

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

5. What kind of eye does Victor Hugo describe in a poem Bataille cites?

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