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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. What tone did Andre Masson establish in his drawings?
(a) Ashen-biological.
(b) Biological-cosmological.
(c) Cosmological-orgiastic.
(d) Orgastic-ashen.

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

3. What paradoxical action does Bataille describe in "Materialism"?
(a) The attempt to rid one's thoughts of spiritualism.
(b) The desire to stop using language for natural functions.
(c) The attempt to translate sex into language.
(d) The attempt to free the eye from aesthetics.

4. When does an obelisk cease to be meaningful?
(a) When the military leader who erected it dies.
(b) As soon as the authority it symbolizes becomes conscious.
(c) When the political party that built it is voted out.
(d) When the people have more important needs.

5. What does Bataille say his father looked like in "[Dream]"?
(a) A vulture.
(b) A house.
(c) A toad.
(d) A star.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bataille describe producing and selling in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?

2. What did Bataille write while he was working?

3. Which of the following does Bataille NOT use as an example of unproductive expenditure without value beyond itself?

4. What two stances did Bataille combine?

5. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?

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