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

2. What two stances did Bataille combine?
(a) Fulfillment and hollowing of man.
(b) Elevation and desecration of man.
(c) Merging and independence of men and women.
(d) Sacrilege and holiness of religion.

3. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?
(a) As a genius.
(b) As a prophet.
(c) As obsessed.
(d) As a pornographer.

4. How would you describe the images Bataille presents?
(a) Cumulative.
(b) Incongruous.
(c) Complementary.
(d) Nonsensical.

5. What does the homogeneous part of society purchase?
(a) Production.
(b) Workers.
(c) Unions.
(d) Capital.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did George Bataille die?

2. Why is classical utility theory inadequate, in Bataille's opinion?

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

4. When did Bataille publish his first pamphlet?

5. What are the two forms of heterogeneity Bataille introduces in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?

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