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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. What does Bataille say about monsters in "The Deviations of Nature"?
(a) That they are necessary to keep people in line.
(b) That they are the best place to gain insight into people's feelings about themselves.
(c) That they represent the opposite of geometric regularity of form.
(d) That they are projections out of the ugliest part of humanity.

2. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?
(a) Breton's friends excommunicated Bataille from the surrealist circles.
(b) Breton might have promoted it.
(c) Breton ruined Bataille in revenge.
(d) Bataille lost friends over the gratuitous attack.

3. Whom did the Popular Front join with?
(a) Communists and Socialists.
(b) Bureaucrats and Communists.
(c) Fascists and totalitarians.
(d) Democrats and Socialist Democrats.

4. What form does Bataille take after being a boy in "[Dream]"?
(a) A butcher.
(b) A priest.
(c) A girl.
(d) An American gentleman.

5. Where did Bataille work until 1942?
(a) The National Gallery in London.
(b) Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.
(c) El Prado in Spain.
(d) Ecole des Beaux Artes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do flowers witness, in "The Language of Flowers"?

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

3. How does "The Language of Flowers" end?

4. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?

5. What does the other self-mutilator (besides Van Gogh) do in "Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh"?

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