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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 paradoxical action does Bataille describe in "Materialism"?
(a) The attempt to rid one's thoughts of spiritualism.
(b) The attempt to free the eye from aesthetics.
(c) The desire to stop using language for natural functions.
(d) The attempt to translate sex into language.

2. What does Bataille say poor people cannot stop rich people from doing?
(a) Buying influence.
(b) Helping the poor.
(c) Eluding prosecution for crimes.
(d) Wasting resources.

3. Who is Elisabeth Judas-Forster?
(a) Andre Masson's lover.
(b) Nietzsche's sister.
(c) A critic of Bataille's.
(d) Bataille's girlfriend.

4. What does Bataille describe as the result of individuals asking critical questions, in "Nietzschean Chronicle"?
(a) Religious persecution.
(b) Decomposition of civilization.
(c) The development of high society.
(d) The emergence of civilization.

5. What does Bataille's 'me in the void' realize in "Sacrifices"?
(a) That he has dominion over everything.
(b) That he might cease to exist.
(c) That he doesn't exist.
(d) That he might have to create himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Bataille say can never touch the reality of earth?

2. How does Bataille describe the Mithraic cult ritual of the sun in "Rotten Sun"?

3. From what does Bataille say Alfred Baumler distilled a doctrine of the people's will to power?

4. How does Bataille describe his father?

5. What was the "Acephale" group's primary purpose?

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