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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 value does money articulate for workers?
(a) The value of their status.
(b) The value of their ideas.
(c) The value of what they produce.
(d) The value of their personal worth.

2. When was George Bataille born?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1899.

3. What did "Acephale" primarily consist of?
(a) Bataille's writing.
(b) Anarchistic literature.
(c) Surrealist writing.
(d) Fascist rants.

4. How does Bataille describe the mandrake root?
(a) Holy.
(b) Obscene.
(c) Noisy.
(d) Human.

5. What did Bataille describe in "The Lugubrious Game"?
(a) Sex play with eyeballs.
(b) Anal fixation.
(c) A brown smudge.
(d) Bestiality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the rats appear in "[Dream]"?

2. What does Bataille say about monsters in "The Deviations of Nature"?

3. What circumstances must be in place for the science function to be served, in Bataille's account in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

4. What feeling does Bataille exaggerate in "The Lugubrious Game"?

5. What does the title of "The Solar Anus" refer to?

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