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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. When did George Bataille die?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1935.

2. How does Bataille describe his thinking in "Popular Front in the Street"?
(a) He said he worshiped the masses.
(b) He said he could not escape from the logic of fascism.
(c) He said he had a paradoxical fascist tendency.
(d) He said he had an indomitable democratic streak.

3. What does Bataille say surrealism is, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?
(a) A childhood sickness of materialism.
(b) A form of world-weariness.
(c) A surplus of idealism.
(d) A reaction against childhood idealism.

4. How does Bataille describe the mandrake root?
(a) Noisy.
(b) Human.
(c) Obscene.
(d) Holy.

5. What was Breton's response to Bataille?
(a) He lamented the absence of any real philosophy at the core of Bataille's writing.
(b) He refuted Bataille's arguments.
(c) He praised the shocking images that would disturb the bourgeoisie.
(d) He condemned his pathological reasoning to the unreasonable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bataille afraid of as a child?

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

3. How do the rats appear in "[Dream]"?

4. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?

5. What does Bataille claim the world is in "The Solar Anus"?

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