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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. How does Bataille describe his memory of his father pulling down his pants in "[Dream]"?
(a) Unimportant.
(b) Catastrophic.
(c) Humiliating and painful.
(d) Terrible and magnificent.

2. When did Bataille and his mother abandon his father?
(a) When the mother took a job in Paris.
(b) When the father was imprisoned.
(c) When the Germans arrived in 1915.
(d) When the father went insane.

3. In "Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh", how long does Bataille say it took Van Gogh to paint suns after his self-mutilation?
(a) Nine months.
(b) Two years.
(c) Fifteen months.
(d) Six months.

4. Who is the audience for "The Practice of Joy before Death"?
(a) Those who are ill.
(b) Those who believe in no beyond.
(c) Those who believe in man's innate divinity.
(d) The Catholic Church.

5. Under what conditions can a state be democratic, in Bataille's opinion?
(a) When homogeneity happens spontaneously.
(b) When heterogeneity happens spontaneously.
(c) When homogeneity can be broken up peacefully.
(d) When heterogeneity can be controlled with force.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling does Bataille say grows in response to revolutionaries?

2. What film does Bataille cite in "The Eye"?

3. Which of the following is one of the directions recomposition of society can take?

4. What does Bataille define as a way to humiliate, defy, or obligate a poorer person as a show of destruction of wealth?

5. When is the 'me' free to accept individuality and transcendence, in Bataille's opinion in "Sacrifices"?

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