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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section II (1932-1935).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mole stand for in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?
(a) God.
(b) Proletarianism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Materialists.

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

3. Whom did the Popular Front join with?
(a) Democrats and Socialist Democrats.
(b) Fascists and totalitarians.
(c) Bureaucrats and Communists.
(d) Communists and Socialists.

4. What does Bataille remember his father spanking him with in "[Dream]"?
(a) A stick.
(b) A belt.
(c) A whip.
(d) A bloody toad.

5. How does "The Language of Flowers" end?
(a) With Sade tossing flower petals into a ditch of manure.
(b) With Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch putting out a priest's eye.
(c) With students strangling a young woman.
(d) With a girl being sent away to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?

2. Under whom does fascism unite society, in Bataille's account?

3. What does the title of "The Solar Anus" refer to?

4. What does Bataille say the eye causes?

5. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?

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