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

2. What did Bataille describe in "The Lugubrious Game"?
(a) Sex play with eyeballs.
(b) Anal fixation.
(c) A brown smudge.
(d) Bestiality.

3. In what piece of writing did Bataille record his childhood?
(a) [Dream].
(b) The Eye.
(c) The Language of Flowers.
(d) The Lugubrious Game.

4. What does Bataille's 'me in the void' realize in "Sacrifices"?
(a) That he might cease to exist.
(b) That he doesn't exist.
(c) That he has dominion over everything.
(d) That he might have to create himself.

5. Why did Bataille leave his job in 1942?
(a) He fled the Germans.
(b) He was ill.
(c) He was fired.
(d) He died.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?

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

3. What does Bataille say money measures, in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?

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

5. How does Bataille describe his work?

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