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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does surrealism rebel at first, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?
(a) With subtle disorientation of meaning.
(b) With all the proletarians.
(c) Without the lower classes.
(d) With all-out deformation of images.

4. In whose hands does Bataille describe conspicuous consumption as a tool?
(a) The intelligentsia.
(b) The poor.
(c) The rich.
(d) The middle class.

5. How does Bataille describe his work?
(a) Monocephalic.
(b) Bicephalic.
(c) Hydrocephalic.
(d) Acephalic.

6. Where did "[Dream]" originate?
(a) In Bataille's imagination.
(b) In Bataille's psychoanalysis.
(c) In Bataille's marriage.
(d) In Bataille's childhood obsession with eyes.

7. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?
(a) Dr. Adler.
(b) Dr. Jung.
(c) Dr. Rank.
(d) Dr. Dausse.

8. How would you describe the images Bataille presents?
(a) Complementary.
(b) Incongruous.
(c) Cumulative.
(d) Nonsensical.

9. When did Bataille publish his first pamphlet?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1919.

10. What does Bataille feel about the rats in "[Dream]"?
(a) They must be fed to snakes.
(b) They must be cleaned.
(c) They must be killed.
(d) The must be cleared out.

11. How do the rats appear in "[Dream]"?
(a) Scratching in the walls.
(b) Swimming in the bilge.
(c) Hanging by their tails.
(d) Crawling in ditches.

12. How does Bataille describe his memory of his father pulling down his pants in "[Dream]"?
(a) Humiliating and painful.
(b) Unimportant.
(c) Terrible and magnificent.
(d) Catastrophic.

13. What was the subject of Bataille's first pamphlet?
(a) Criticism of his father.
(b) Praise of his mother.
(c) Praise of Cathedral Notre Dame des Reims.
(d) Criticism of his religion.

14. What did Bataille write while he was working?
(a) Art criticism.
(b) Articles on philosophy.
(c) Book reviews.
(d) A medieval romance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What principles does Bataille say men associate with height in "The Big Toe"?

2. What critique does Bataille make in "The Critique of the Foundations of Hegelian Dialectic"?

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

4. What principles does Bataille say men associate with the feet in "The Big Toe"?

5. What does Bataille claim the world is in "The Solar Anus"?

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