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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. When did Bataille and his mother abandon his father?
(a) When the mother took a job in Paris.
(b) When the Germans arrived in 1915.
(c) When the father was imprisoned.
(d) When the father went insane.

2. What does Bataille compare roots to, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) Visible leaves.
(b) Death.
(c) Human bodies.
(d) Corruption.

3. What does the cross demand, at the end of "Sacrifices"?
(a) Struggle with the lower self.
(b) Embrace in struggle.
(c) Freedom from struggle.
(d) Struggle with insurmountable obstacles.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille's 'me in the void' realize in "Sacrifices"?

2. How should materialism be disclaimed, in "Materialism"?

3. What paradoxical action does Bataille describe in "Materialism"?

4. What did Breton call Bataille?

5. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?

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