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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 form does Bataille take after being a boy in "[Dream]"?
(a) A priest.
(b) A butcher.
(c) A girl.
(d) An American gentleman.

2. 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.

3. What does the mole stand for in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Materialists.
(c) Proletarianism.
(d) God.

4. What film does Bataille cite in "The Eye"?
(a) L'Age d'Or.
(b) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
(c) Andalusian Dog.
(d) That Obscure Object of Desire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does surrealism rebel at first, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?

2. What did Bataille describe in "The Lugubrious Game"?

3. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?

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

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

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