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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. Who contributed to "Documents"?
(a) Rebel surrealists.
(b) Biologists.
(c) Literary critics.
(d) Librarians.

2. What was Breton's response to Bataille?
(a) He condemned his pathological reasoning to the unreasonable.
(b) He praised the shocking images that would disturb the bourgeoisie.
(c) He lamented the absence of any real philosophy at the core of Bataille's writing.
(d) He refuted Bataille's arguments.

3. What does Bataille compare roots to, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) Human bodies.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Death.
(d) Visible leaves.

4. What does the title of "The Solar Anus" refer to?
(a) The passage out of purgatory.
(b) The source of all matter.
(c) The blinding effect of seeing a girl's anus.
(d) The regeneration of the universe in stars that eat planets.

5. How does Bataille describe his father?
(a) Financially secure.
(b) Frequently ill and mentally unstable.
(c) Blind, paralytic and syphilitic.
(d) Depressed and alcoholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do philosophers use natural forms, in "The Language of Flowers"?

2. What writer coined the term conspicuous consumption?

3. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?

4. What does Bataille say conspicuous consumption was used for?

5. What kind of eye does Victor Hugo describe in a poem Bataille cites?

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