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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interrupts the road in "[Dream]"?
(a) Construction workers.
(b) Children.
(c) Fishermen.
(d) Rats and vermin.

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

3. What was Bataille afraid of as a child?
(a) The Rain.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Rats.

4. What film does Bataille cite in "The Eye"?
(a) L'Age d'Or.
(b) That Obscure Object of Desire.
(c) Andalusian Dog.
(d) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bataille describe the mandrake root?

2. What does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?

3. What does Bataille feel about the rats in "[Dream]"?

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

5. What relationship do the writings in Section II have to the writings in Section I?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of essay is "Formless"?

2. What is Bataille's relationship with Hegel?

3. What was Bataille's relationship with Andrea Breton?

4. What is expressed in the language of flowers in "The Language of Flowers"?

5. Describe Bataille's experience with psychoanalysis.

6. What were Bataille's early publications?

7. What are the terrifying images in "[Dream]"?

8. Describe the change in Bataille's early work to his more mature work and values.

9. Describe Bataille's religion in childhood.

10. How does self-mutilation in "Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh" relate to Bataille's description of body parts in other essays.

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