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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. How does "The Language of Flowers" end?
(a) With students strangling a young woman.
(b) With Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch putting out a priest's eye.
(c) With a girl being sent away to school.
(d) With Sade tossing flower petals into a ditch of manure.

2. Where did "[Dream]" originate?
(a) In Bataille's psychoanalysis.
(b) In Bataille's childhood obsession with eyes.
(c) In Bataille's marriage.
(d) In Bataille's imagination.

3. Why did Bataille leave his job in 1942?
(a) He fled the Germans.
(b) He died.
(c) He was ill.
(d) He was fired.

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

5. Where was Bataille born?
(a) Paris.
(b) Nancy.
(c) Pau.
(d) Reims.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bataille being punished for in "[Dream]"?

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

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

4. What does Bataille feel about the rats in "[Dream]"?

5. How did Bataille rebel against his father?

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