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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 does the other self-mutilator (besides Van Gogh) do in "Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh"?
(a) Bite off his finger.
(b) Put out his eye.
(c) Cut off his hand.
(d) Drink his own blood.

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

3. What principles does Bataille say men associate with height in "The Big Toe"?
(a) Trustworthiness and leadership.
(b) Power and danger.
(c) Strength and authority.
(d) Good and light.

4. What relationship between events and things is Bataille describing in "The Solar Anus"?
(a) Reverence.
(b) Interpretation
(c) Duplication.
(d) Imitation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What description fits with the "Acephale" group?

3. What was Bataille afraid of as a child?

4. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?

5. Whom does Bataille refer to as untouchables in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?

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