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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section II (1932-1935).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What strategy does Surrealism use for presenting images?
(a) Images are piled on, one after another.
(b) The images are distorted beyond recognition.
(c) Opposite images are contrasted.
(d) Layers of each image are stripped away until the essential truth is apparent.

3. What kinds of expenditure does artistic production require?
(a) Real or symbolic expenditure.
(b) Public or patron expenditure.
(c) Patron or market expenditure.
(d) Religious or secular expenditure.

4. How should materialism be disclaimed, in "Materialism"?
(a) By including all idealism.
(b) By superseding idealism with dialogue.
(c) By replacing idealism with matter.
(d) By excluding all idealism.

5. What do flowers witness, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) The architectural order of fields and forests.
(b) The life and death of love.
(c) The reason for the plants' existence.
(d) Nothing but a moment in the life of the plant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille use as evidence of his position on dialectics?

2. Where did Bataille work until 1942?

3. Under what conditions can a state be democratic, in Bataille's opinion?

4. What does Bataille say is the contradiction in Christians worshiping God?

5. Whom does Bataille refer to as untouchables in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?

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