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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section I (1927-1930).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did "[Dream]" originate?
(a) In Bataille's imagination.
(b) In Bataille's psychoanalysis.
(c) In Bataille's childhood obsession with eyes.
(d) In Bataille's marriage.

3. When did Bataille publish his first pamphlet?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1921.

4. What interrupts the road in "[Dream]"?
(a) Rats and vermin.
(b) Construction workers.
(c) Children.
(d) Fishermen.

5. How does Bataille describe his father?
(a) Frequently ill and mentally unstable.
(b) Blind, paralytic and syphilitic.
(c) Financially secure.
(d) Depressed and alcoholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bataille recall riding his bicycle in Reims, in "[Dream]"?

2. What two stances did Bataille combine?

3. What relationship do the writings in Section II have to the writings in Section I?

4. What did "Acephale" primarily consist of?

5. In whose hands does Bataille describe conspicuous consumption as a tool?

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