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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. When did Bataille and his mother abandon his father?
(a) When the father was imprisoned.
(b) When the mother took a job in Paris.
(c) When the Germans arrived in 1915.
(d) When the father went insane.

2. When did Bataille publish "W.C."?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1920.

3. What does Bataille say his father looked like in "[Dream]"?
(a) A star.
(b) A toad.
(c) A house.
(d) A vulture.

4. What paradoxical action does Bataille describe in "Materialism"?
(a) The attempt to free the eye from aesthetics.
(b) The attempt to translate sex into language.
(c) The desire to stop using language for natural functions.
(d) The attempt to rid one's thoughts of spiritualism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Bataille's feelings for Breton?

2. Whom did Bataille join with to form the Popular Front?

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

4. What effect do flowers have on love, in "The Language of Flowers"?

5. What was Breton's response to Bataille?

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