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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section I (1927-1930).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Bataille rebel against his father?
(a) By running away from home.
(b) By taking lovers.
(c) By becoming a Protestant.
(d) By quitting school.

2. What are the rats doing in "[Dream]"?
(a) Trying to bite.
(b) Eating each other.
(c) Eating garbage.
(d) Swimming.

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

4. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?
(a) Breton might have promoted it.
(b) Bataille lost friends over the gratuitous attack.
(c) Breton ruined Bataille in revenge.
(d) Breton's friends excommunicated Bataille from the surrealist circles.

5. How does Bataille describe his father?
(a) Frequently ill and mentally unstable.
(b) Depressed and alcoholic.
(c) Blind, paralytic and syphilitic.
(d) Financially secure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bataille say about his book "W.C."?

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

3. What does the other self-mutilator (besides Van Gogh) do in "Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh"?

4. What are flowers not matched by, in "The Language of Flowers"?

5. What does Bataille say coitus is associated with, in "The Solar Anus"?

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