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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 the essay "Sacrifices" used as?
(a) A personal essay.
(b) A criticism.
(c) As a preface.
(d) A review.

2. What did Bataille say about his book "W.C."?
(a) It was a prophecy.
(b) It was opposed to all dignity.
(c) It was execrable and shouldn't be published.
(d) It was going to destroy the world.

3. What relationship do the writings in Section II have to the writings in Section I?
(a) They were logical extensions.
(b) They were implicit in them.
(c) They were unrelated.
(d) They were unprecedented.

4. When does an obelisk cease to be meaningful?
(a) When the people have more important needs.
(b) When the political party that built it is voted out.
(c) As soon as the authority it symbolizes becomes conscious.
(d) When the military leader who erected it dies.

5. What did Breton call Bataille?
(a) An excremental philosopher.
(b) A incremental writing whore.
(c) A dubious genius.
(d) A prophet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who contributed to "Documents"?

2. What does Bataille say man demanded of the earth?

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

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

5. What does Bataille describe as the only truly liberating act?

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