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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 does the mole stand for in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?
(a) God.
(b) Proletarianism.
(c) Materialists.
(d) Surrealism.

2. What does Bataille remember his father spanking him with in "[Dream]"?
(a) A belt.
(b) A stick.
(c) A bloody toad.
(d) A whip.

3. What does Bataille say about a man who knows his neighbors?
(a) He maintains his place in society by a network of lies and half-truths.
(b) He is larger than himself in his connection with an organic whole.
(c) He is a particle connected by instability to an entangled whole.
(d) He replaces his life with the life of the community.

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

5. What kinds of expenditure does artistic production require?
(a) Real or symbolic expenditure.
(b) Patron or market expenditure.
(c) Public or patron expenditure.
(d) Religious or secular expenditure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille say democracy is based on?

2. Under what conditions can a state be democratic, in Bataille's opinion?

3. How does surrealism rebel at first, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?

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

5. How did Bataille relate to Andre Masson's drawings?

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