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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Breton call Bataille?
(a) A dubious genius.
(b) A prophet.
(c) An excremental philosopher.
(d) A incremental writing whore.

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

3. What was the subject of Bataille's first pamphlet?
(a) Criticism of his religion.
(b) Praise of his mother.
(c) Praise of Cathedral Notre Dame des Reims.
(d) Criticism of his father.

4. Where did Bataille work until 1942?
(a) Ecole des Beaux Artes.
(b) The National Gallery in London.
(c) El Prado in Spain.
(d) Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

5. Whom does Bataille contrast to the sovereign in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) The middle class merchant.
(b) The Jews.
(c) The ignoble workers.
(d) The aristocrats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Bataille refer to as untouchables in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?

2. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?

3. Why did Bataille leave his job in 1942?

4. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?

5. Whom did the Popular Front join with?

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