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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III (1936-1939).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does surrealism rebel at first, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?
(a) With all the proletarians.
(b) With all-out deformation of images.
(c) With subtle disorientation of meaning.
(d) Without the lower classes.

2. For what field did Bataille go to school?
(a) Medieval librarian.
(b) Philosopher.
(c) Writer.
(d) Renaissance art critic.

3. What does Bataille say about the knife whose handle and blade are changed indefinitely?
(a) It is a capitalist knife, with its value in its use alone.
(b) It is no longer the same knife.
(c) It is a modern knife, with replaceable parts.
(d) It partakes of the eternal form of knife-ness.

4. Who is Elisabeth Judas-Forster?
(a) Andre Masson's lover.
(b) Bataille's girlfriend.
(c) A critic of Bataille's.
(d) Nietzsche's sister.

5. What tone did Andre Masson establish in his drawings?
(a) Ashen-biological.
(b) Biological-cosmological.
(c) Orgastic-ashen.
(d) Cosmological-orgiastic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Engels look for examples to test the dialectic method of Marx and Hegel?

2. How does Bataille describe producing and selling in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?

3. What are the rats doing in "[Dream]"?

4. Which of the following is one of the directions recomposition of society can take?

5. What characterizes man in "The Eye"?

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