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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Bataille contrast to the sovereign in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) The Jews.
(b) The middle class merchant.
(c) The aristocrats.
(d) The ignoble workers.

2. Why was Bataille annoyed while riding his bicycle?
(a) The sand was slushy with high tide.
(b) The schoolyard was fenced in.
(c) The house was too small for his turns.
(d) The pavement was broken up by streetcar tracks.

3. What feeling does Bataille exaggerate in "The Lugubrious Game"?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Mournfulness.
(c) Irreverence.
(d) Respect.

4. What writer coined the term conspicuous consumption?
(a) Veblen.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Engels.
(d) Marx.

5. What was Bataille being punished for in "[Dream]"?
(a) Wetting himself.
(b) Seeing his parents naked.
(c) Playing with a hoop.
(d) Staying up too late.

6. When did Bataille deny his faith?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1919.

7. What two stances did Bataille combine?
(a) Sacrilege and holiness of religion.
(b) Fulfillment and hollowing of man.
(c) Merging and independence of men and women.
(d) Elevation and desecration of man.

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

9. What does Bataille say conspicuous consumption was used for?
(a) Affirming the position of the rich.
(b) Devaluing the trappings of wealth.
(c) Attacking the inequalities in the economy.
(d) Destroying the foundation of wealth.

10. What does the title of "The Solar Anus" refer to?
(a) The source of all matter.
(b) The passage out of purgatory.
(c) The blinding effect of seeing a girl's anus.
(d) The regeneration of the universe in stars that eat planets.

11. For what field did Bataille go to school?
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Renaissance art critic.
(c) Writer.
(d) Medieval librarian.

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

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

14. What effect do flowers have on love, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) Sacrilege.
(b) Celebration.
(c) Praise.
(d) Sanctification.

15. What did Breton call Bataille?
(a) A incremental writing whore.
(b) An excremental philosopher.
(c) A dubious genius.
(d) A prophet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Bataille join with to form the Popular Front?

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

3. What does standing upright do for man in "The Big Toe"?

4. What was Breton's response to Bataille?

5. What do volcanoes serve as, in "The Solar Anus"?

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