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

2. When did Bataille and his mother abandon his father?
(a) When the mother took a job in Paris.
(b) When the father was imprisoned.
(c) When the Germans arrived in 1915.
(d) When the father went insane.

3. What claim does Bataille discuss in "The Deviations of Nature"?
(a) That nothing is more horrifying that carnival freaks.
(b) That nothing is more horrifying than rats at carnivals.
(c) That nothing is more horrifying than man.
(d) That nothing is more horrifying than snakes.

4. How does Bataille describe his work?
(a) Hydrocephalic.
(b) Bicephalic.
(c) Monocephalic.
(d) Acephalic.

5. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?
(a) For failing to embrace the decomposition of culture.
(b) For admiring Emerson.
(c) For megalomania and failure of ideas.
(d) For going insane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille compare roots to, in "The Language of Flowers"?

2. How does dialectic operate in "Notion of Expenditure"?

3. What does Bataille say his father looked like in "[Dream]"?

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

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

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