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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. How does Bataille describe his memory of his father pulling down his pants in "[Dream]"?
(a) Humiliating and painful.
(b) Terrible and magnificent.
(c) Unimportant.
(d) Catastrophic.

2. What do volcanoes serve as, in "The Solar Anus"?
(a) God's mouths.
(b) Penises.
(c) The earth's anus.
(d) Mother earth's breasts.

3. What does Bataille feel about the rats in "[Dream]"?
(a) They must be cleaned.
(b) They must be killed.
(c) The must be cleared out.
(d) They must be fed to snakes.

4. 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 refuted Bataille's arguments.
(d) He lamented the absence of any real philosophy at the core of Bataille's writing.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the first stage of revolution, in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?

3. What did Hegel claim about nature?

4. What were Bataille's feelings for Breton?

5. For what field did Bataille go to school?

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