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

2. Where did Bataille go to school?
(a) Lycée International.
(b) Ecole des Chartres.
(c) Ecole des Beaux Artes.
(d) Lycée Henry IV.

3. In "Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh", how long does Bataille say it took Van Gogh to paint suns after his self-mutilation?
(a) Two years.
(b) Nine months.
(c) Six months.
(d) Fifteen months.

4. Where did Bataille work until 1942?
(a) The National Gallery in London.
(b) Ecole des Beaux Artes.
(c) El Prado in Spain.
(d) Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

5. Whom did the Popular Front join with?
(a) Bureaucrats and Communists.
(b) Fascists and totalitarians.
(c) Democrats and Socialist Democrats.
(d) Communists and Socialists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did "[Dream]" originate?

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

3. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?

4. What strategy does Surrealism use for presenting images?

5. What does Bataille say coitus is associated with, in "The Solar Anus"?

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