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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III (1936-1939).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bataille describe the mandrake root?
(a) Obscene.
(b) Noisy.
(c) Human.
(d) Holy.

2. What were Bataille's feelings for Breton?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Hostility.
(d) Supplication.

3. What do volcanoes serve as, in "The Solar Anus"?
(a) Penises.
(b) Mother earth's breasts.
(c) God's mouths.
(d) The earth's anus.

4. What does Bataille say is the only virtue for fascists?
(a) Germany.
(b) Religion.
(c) Language.
(d) History.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of the directions recomposition of society can take?

2. What does Bataille say surrealism is, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?

3. What aspect of the Marx/Hegel dialectic did professor Hartmann test?

4. How does "The Language of Flowers" end?

5. Who introduced Bataille to surrealism?

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