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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 megalomania and failure of ideas.
(b) For failing to embrace the decomposition of culture.
(c) For admiring Emerson.
(d) For going insane.

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

3. What are the rats doing in "[Dream]"?
(a) Trying to bite.
(b) Eating each other.
(c) Eating garbage.
(d) Swimming.

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

5. What were Bataille's feelings for Breton?
(a) Hostility.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Supplication.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Breton call Bataille?

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

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

4. When did Bataille publish "W.C."?

5. What do volcanoes serve as, in "The Solar Anus"?

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