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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. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?
(a) Breton ruined Bataille in revenge.
(b) Breton might have promoted it.
(c) Breton's friends excommunicated Bataille from the surrealist circles.
(d) Bataille lost friends over the gratuitous attack.

2. What does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?
(a) Obsession with excrement.
(b) Oedipal terror.
(c) Homoerotic terror.
(d) Obsession with priests.

3. What kind of eye does Victor Hugo describe in a poem Bataille cites?
(a) An eye of conscience.
(b) An eye of longing.
(c) An eye of judgment.
(d) An eye of surveillance.

4. Why is classical utility theory inadequate, in Bataille's opinion?
(a) Utility theory relies on principles like honor and duty.
(b) Utility theory is not compatible with the Marxist imperative of class revolution.
(c) Utility theory disregards values like honor and virtue.
(d) Utility theory mystifies economics with talk of revolution.

5. Which of the following does Bataille NOT use as an example of unproductive expenditure without value beyond itself?
(a) Luxuries.
(b) Public gardens.
(c) War.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What principles does Bataille say men associate with height in "The Big Toe"?

2. How does surrealism rebel at first, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?

3. What relationship between events and things is Bataille describing in "The Solar Anus"?

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

5. What tone did Andre Masson establish in his drawings?

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