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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 circumstances must be in place for the science function to be served, in Bataille's account in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) It must serve someone's sense of power.
(b) Science must be the only goal.
(c) Profit must be part of the goal.
(d) Religion must be referred to in its sense of its goals.

2. What is classical utility theory inadequate to define, in Bataille's opinion?
(a) The value of religious belief.
(b) What is useful to man.
(c) The value of tranquility.
(d) What is aesthetically valuable.

3. What was Bataille being punished for in "[Dream]"?
(a) Staying up too late.
(b) Playing with a hoop.
(c) Seeing his parents naked.
(d) Wetting himself.

4. What does Bataille describe as the only truly liberating act?
(a) Revolutionary destruction.
(b) Lovemaking.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Art.

5. What movement does Bataille say in "The Sacred" was heir to Vincent Van Gogh and Rimbaud?
(a) Transcendentalism.
(b) Cubism.
(c) Dadaism.
(d) Surrealism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What approaches to Hegel's philosophy did Nicolai Hartmann compare?

2. What did "Acephale" primarily consist of?

3. What does Bataille say surrealism is, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?

4. When did Bataille publish "W.C."?

5. What does Baumler call revolution?

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