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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. What does Bataille say about monsters in "The Deviations of Nature"?
(a) That they are the best place to gain insight into people's feelings about themselves.
(b) That they are necessary to keep people in line.
(c) That they are projections out of the ugliest part of humanity.
(d) That they represent the opposite of geometric regularity of form.

2. What does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?
(a) Oedipal terror.
(b) Obsession with excrement.
(c) Obsession with priests.
(d) Homoerotic terror.

3. What was the "Acephale" group's primary purpose?
(a) To recreate the myth of God.
(b) To kill God.
(c) To annihilate the idea of God.
(d) To come into contact with God in men.

4. What were Bataille's feelings for Breton?
(a) Hostility.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Supplication.
(d) Indifference.

5. What was Bataille being punished for in "[Dream]"?
(a) Playing with a hoop.
(b) Wetting himself.
(c) Staying up too late.
(d) Seeing his parents naked.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bataille describe his thinking in "Popular Front in the Street"?

2. What does Bataille claim the world is in "The Solar Anus"?

3. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?

4. When did Bataille deny his faith?

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

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