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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. Who introduced Bataille to surrealism?
(a) Michael Leiris.
(b) Andre Breton.
(c) Joan Miro.
(d) Marcel Duchamp.

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

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

4. What did Bataille describe in "The Lugubrious Game"?
(a) Sex play with eyeballs.
(b) Anal fixation.
(c) A brown smudge.
(d) Bestiality.

5. What does Bataille say coitus is associated with, in "The Solar Anus"?
(a) Comedy.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Business.
(d) Crime.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what field did Bataille go to school?

2. What did Breton call Bataille?

3. Why was Bataille annoyed while riding his bicycle?

4. How does Bataille describe the mandrake root?

5. How does Bataille describe the Mithraic cult ritual of the sun in "Rotten Sun"?

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