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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 did Bataille rebel against his father?
(a) By quitting school.
(b) By becoming a Protestant.
(c) By running away from home.
(d) By taking lovers.

2. What relationship do the writings in Section II have to the writings in Section I?
(a) They were unrelated.
(b) They were unprecedented.
(c) They were logical extensions.
(d) They were implicit in them.

3. What characterizes man in "The Eye"?
(a) Desire for violence and violation.
(b) Longing for purity.
(c) Longing for sacrilege.
(d) Horror of eyes and insects.

4. What does Bataille remember his father spanking him with in "[Dream]"?
(a) A bloody toad.
(b) A stick.
(c) A belt.
(d) A whip.

5. What does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?
(a) Obsession with excrement.
(b) Homoerotic terror.
(c) Obsession with priests.
(d) Oedipal terror.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bataille describe producing and selling in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?

2. What interrupts the road in "[Dream]"?

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

4. What is the first stage of revolution, in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?

5. Why did Bataille leave his job in 1942?

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