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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. How does dialectic operate in "Notion of Expenditure"?
(a) It prevents revolution.
(b) It results from revolution.
(c) It pacifies the proletariat.
(d) It animates class struggle.

2. What is the benefit Bataille sees to having more than one meaning in his work?
(a) It keeps the reader uncomfortable.
(b) It demonstrates the impossibility of truth.
(c) It keeps all Bataille's options open.
(d) It gives a clearer statement of his thought.

3. What do flowers witness, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) The reason for the plants' existence.
(b) The architectural order of fields and forests.
(c) The life and death of love.
(d) Nothing but a moment in the life of the plant.

4. Where was Bataille born?
(a) Pau.
(b) Paris.
(c) Nancy.
(d) Reims.

5. What does standing upright do for man in "The Big Toe"?
(a) Raises his head to the heavens.
(b) Distorts his vision with unnatural ideas.
(c) Lets him see things clearer.
(d) Hides his anus.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did George Bataille die?

2. What does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?

3. How does Bataille describe his thinking in "Popular Front in the Street"?

4. How does Bataille describe the mandrake root?

5. What two stances did Bataille combine?

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