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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 do philosophers use natural forms, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) As symbols of sacred abstraction.
(b) As primitive forms of the things themselves.
(c) As symbols for the experience and association of natural forms.
(d) As metaphors for other natural forms.

2. What does Bataille claim the world is in "The Solar Anus"?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Parody.
(c) Comedy.
(d) Farce.

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

4. What is the first stage of revolution, in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?
(a) Appropriating the language with which groups claim power.
(b) Portraying your revolution as a utopian project destined to succeed.
(c) Expelling a group from power.
(d) Staking a claim to a new kind of authority.

5. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?
(a) For failing to embrace the decomposition of culture.
(b) For megalomania and failure of ideas.
(c) For admiring Emerson.
(d) For going insane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Bataille annoyed while riding his bicycle?

2. What did Bataille write while he was working?

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

4. How does dialectic operate in "Notion of Expenditure"?

5. When did Bataille form the Popular Front?

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