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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. Whom did Bataille join with to form the Popular Front?
(a) Breton.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Marx.
(d) Marinetti.

2. Whom did the Popular Front join with?
(a) Communists and Socialists.
(b) Fascists and totalitarians.
(c) Democrats and Socialist Democrats.
(d) Bureaucrats and Communists.

3. In whose hands does Bataille describe conspicuous consumption as a tool?
(a) The rich.
(b) The poor.
(c) The intelligentsia.
(d) The middle class.

4. How did Bataille relate to Andre Masson's drawings?
(a) He saw himself as the lines and the paper themselves.
(b) He saw himself as the self in flight.
(c) He saw himself as the sick man.
(d) He saw himself as the entire cosmos.

5. When did Bataille publish his first pamphlet?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the cross demand, at the end of "Sacrifices"?

3. What was Bataille afraid of as a child?

4. What tone did Andre Masson establish in his drawings?

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

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