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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 Bataille publish "W.C."?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1920.

2. How does Bataille describe producing and selling in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?
(a) As consumptive phases.
(b) As primitive phases.
(c) As revolutionary phases.
(d) As excretory phases.

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

4. What interrupts the road in "[Dream]"?
(a) Rats and vermin.
(b) Fishermen.
(c) Construction workers.
(d) Children.

5. How does surrealism rebel at first, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?
(a) With all-out deformation of images.
(b) Without the lower classes.
(c) With subtle disorientation of meaning.
(d) With all the proletarians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does standing upright do for man in "The Big Toe"?

2. Where did Bataille go to school?

3. When did Bataille deny his faith?

4. How does Bataille describe his memory of his father pulling down his pants in "[Dream]"?

5. How should materialism be disclaimed, in "Materialism"?

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