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

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

3. What was Bataille being punished for in "[Dream]"?
(a) Wetting himself.
(b) Staying up too late.
(c) Playing with a hoop.
(d) Seeing his parents naked.

4. 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 condemned his pathological reasoning to the unreasonable.
(d) He praised the shocking images that would disturb the bourgeoisie.

5. Whom does Bataille refer to as untouchables in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) The workers.
(b) The rich.
(c) The impoverished.
(d) The sovereign.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bataille publish his first pamphlet?

2. When did Bataille form the Popular Front?

3. What feeling does Bataille exaggerate in "The Lugubrious Game"?

4. What claim does Bataille discuss in "The Deviations of Nature"?

5. How does Bataille describe his father?

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