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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. Who introduced Bataille to surrealism?
(a) Michael Leiris.
(b) Andre Breton.
(c) Marcel Duchamp.
(d) Joan Miro.
2. 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.
3. What does standing upright do for man in "The Big Toe"?
(a) Lets him see things clearer.
(b) Hides his anus.
(c) Distorts his vision with unnatural ideas.
(d) Raises his head to the heavens.
4. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?
(a) Dr. Dausse.
(b) Dr. Jung.
(c) Dr. Adler.
(d) Dr. Rank.
5. What description fits with the "Acephale" group?
(a) Community organizers.
(b) Literature brotherhood.
(c) Secret society.
(d) Political underground.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what piece of writing did Bataille record his childhood?
2. What does Bataille claim the world is in "The Solar Anus"?
3. Where did Bataille go to school?
4. How does Bataille describe the mandrake root?
5. What two stances did Bataille combine?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Bataille's objection to Nietzsche?
2. What experience does Bataille elevate in "Rotten Sun"?
3. What are the terrifying images in "[Dream]"?
4. How does Bataille describe his role in "The Jesuve"?
5. What was Bataille's relationship with Andrea Breton?
6. What does Bataille say about 'freaks' in "The Deviations of Nature"?
7. What were Bataille's early publications?
8. 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.
9. How was Bataille's first book received?
10. What is the value of intellectual violence in Bataille's work?
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