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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) Put out his eye.
(b) Drink his own blood.
(c) Cut off his hand.
(d) Bite off his finger.

2. What kind of eye does Victor Hugo describe in a poem Bataille cites?
(a) An eye of surveillance.
(b) An eye of longing.
(c) An eye of judgment.
(d) An eye of conscience.

3. What is the first stage of revolution, in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?
(a) Staking a claim to a new kind of authority.
(b) Expelling a group from power.
(c) Portraying your revolution as a utopian project destined to succeed.
(d) Appropriating the language with which groups claim power.

4. What is the benefit Bataille sees to having more than one meaning in his work?
(a) It keeps all Bataille's options open.
(b) It demonstrates the impossibility of truth.
(c) It keeps the reader uncomfortable.
(d) It gives a clearer statement of his thought.

5. Who introduced Bataille to surrealism?
(a) Andre Breton.
(b) Michael Leiris.
(c) Marcel Duchamp.
(d) Joan Miro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille claim the world is in "The Solar Anus"?

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

3. What are flowers not matched by, in "The Language of Flowers"?

4. What were Bataille's feelings for Breton?

5. For what field did Bataille go to school?

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