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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 writer coined the term conspicuous consumption?
(a) Engels.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Marx.
(d) Veblen.

2. What relationship do the writings in Section II have to the writings in Section I?
(a) They were unrelated.
(b) They were unprecedented.
(c) They were implicit in them.
(d) They were logical extensions.

3. How does Bataille describe his father?
(a) Financially secure.
(b) Depressed and alcoholic.
(c) Blind, paralytic and syphilitic.
(d) Frequently ill and mentally unstable.

4. What are flowers not matched by, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) The purity of the sunshine.
(b) The work of bees.
(c) The corrupt hands that pick them.
(d) A show of human love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Bataille born?

2. What did Bataille describe in "The Lugubrious Game"?

3. What did "Acephale" primarily consist of?

4. How did Bataille rebel against his father?

5. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?

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