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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 principles does Bataille say men associate with the feet in "The Big Toe"?
(a) Evil and dark.
(b) Powerlessness and subservience.
(c) Subversion and power.
(d) Labor and evil.

2. What did Breton call Bataille?
(a) An excremental philosopher.
(b) A incremental writing whore.
(c) A prophet.
(d) A dubious genius.

3. How does Bataille describe his memory of his father pulling down his pants in "[Dream]"?
(a) Humiliating and painful.
(b) Unimportant.
(c) Catastrophic.
(d) Terrible and magnificent.

4. How did Bataille rebel against his father?
(a) By taking lovers.
(b) By becoming a Protestant.
(c) By running away from home.
(d) By quitting school.

5. What critique does Bataille make in "The Critique of the Foundations of Hegelian Dialectic"?
(a) He frees dialectical negation from Engels' mechanical abstraction.
(b) He demonstrated why dialectical materialism is inevitable.
(c) He mocks Marx and Engels for their idealism.
(d) He criticizes the Oversoul as a childish fantasy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does dialectic operate in "Notion of Expenditure"?

3. When did Bataille deny his faith?

4. What feeling does Bataille exaggerate in "The Lugubrious Game"?

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

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