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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III (1936-1939).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does surrealism rebel at first, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?
(a) With all the proletarians.
(b) With all-out deformation of images.
(c) Without the lower classes.
(d) With subtle disorientation of meaning.

2. What effect do flowers have on love, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) Celebration.
(b) Sacrilege.
(c) Sanctification.
(d) Praise.

3. What does Bataille describe as a symptom of cultural crisis?
(a) Administrative impudence.
(b) Technological incompetence.
(c) Outrageous profits.
(d) Bureaucratic regulation.

4. What does Bataille say dominates history in "Popular Front in the Street"?
(a) Fascists.
(b) Revolutions.
(c) Democracies.
(d) Technologies.

5. What does Bataille say about meaning in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Things can only have meaning when they are fictitious.
(b) Things cannot have meaning unless they are historical realities.
(c) Things can only have meaning if they motivate actions.
(d) Things can only have meaning if there is a consensus about them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when political action leads to nothing, in "The Sacred Conspiracy"?

2. What does Bataille feel about the rats in "[Dream]"?

3. How did Bataille rebel against his father?

4. What does homogeneity depend on?

5. What is the significance of the image of the labyrinth in the "The Labyrinth"?

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