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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 strategy does Surrealism use for presenting images?
(a) Images are piled on, one after another.
(b) The images are distorted beyond recognition.
(c) Opposite images are contrasted.
(d) Layers of each image are stripped away until the essential truth is apparent.

2. How does Bataille describe producing and selling in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?
(a) As primitive phases.
(b) As consumptive phases.
(c) As revolutionary phases.
(d) As excretory phases.

3. What did Bataille write while he was working?
(a) A medieval romance.
(b) Art criticism.
(c) Book reviews.
(d) Articles on philosophy.

4. When was George Bataille born?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1899.

5. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?
(a) For megalomania and failure of ideas.
(b) For admiring Emerson.
(c) For failing to embrace the decomposition of culture.
(d) For going insane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the "Acephale" group's primary purpose?

2. How do the rats appear in "[Dream]"?

3. Which of the following does Bataille NOT use as an example of unproductive expenditure without value beyond itself?

4. How does Bataille describe the mandrake root?

5. What does Bataille use as evidence of his position on dialectics?

(see the answer key)

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