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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first stage of revolution, in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?
(a) Staking a claim to a new kind of authority.
(b) Appropriating the language with which groups claim power.
(c) Expelling a group from power.
(d) Portraying your revolution as a utopian project destined to succeed.

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

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

4. What did "Acephale" primarily consist of?
(a) Anarchistic literature.
(b) Surrealist writing.
(c) Fascist rants.
(d) Bataille's writing.

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

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

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

8. What form does Bataille take after being a boy in "[Dream]"?
(a) A girl.
(b) An American gentleman.
(c) A butcher.
(d) A priest.

9. What principles does Bataille say men associate with the feet in "The Big Toe"?
(a) Evil and dark.
(b) Labor and evil.
(c) Subversion and power.
(d) Powerlessness and subservience.

10. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?
(a) As a pornographer.
(b) As obsessed.
(c) As a prophet.
(d) As a genius.

11. Where does Bataille recall riding his bicycle in Reims, in "[Dream]"?
(a) In his house.
(b) On the beach.
(c) Through the streets.
(d) In the schoolyard.

12. When was George Bataille born?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1899.

13. When did Bataille publish "W.C."?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1902.

14. 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) Six months.
(b) Nine months.
(c) Two years.
(d) Fifteen months.

15. Whom does Bataille refer to as untouchables in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) The impoverished.
(b) The rich.
(c) The sovereign.
(d) The workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bataille being punished for in "[Dream]"?

2. What did Bataille write while he was working?

3. How do the rats appear in "[Dream]"?

4. How does Bataille describe his father?

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

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