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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 was Breton's response to Bataille?
(a) He praised the shocking images that would disturb the bourgeoisie.
(b) He condemned his pathological reasoning to the unreasonable.
(c) He lamented the absence of any real philosophy at the core of Bataille's writing.
(d) He refuted Bataille's arguments.

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

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

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

5. How does dialectic operate in "Notion of Expenditure"?
(a) It prevents revolution.
(b) It animates class struggle.
(c) It results from revolution.
(d) It pacifies the proletariat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who contributed to "Documents"?

2. What did Breton call Bataille?

3. When did Bataille form the Popular Front?

4. What does Bataille say his father looked like in "[Dream]"?

5. Whom did the Popular Front join with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the paradox at the heart of "Materialism".

2. How does the notion of parody apply to the sun in "The Solar Anus"?

3. Describe Bataille's religion in childhood.

4. What is Bataille's relationship with Hegel?

5. Describe Bataille's experience with psychoanalysis.

6. What is the value of intellectual violence in Bataille's work?

7. What distinguished the big toe in "The Big Toe"?

8. How does the mouth in "Mouth" compare with the eyeball in ''The Eye'?

9. What experience does Bataille elevate in "Rotten Sun"?

10. How does Bataille describe his role in "The Jesuve"?

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