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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was George Bataille born?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1897.

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

3. When did Bataille and his mother abandon his father?
(a) When the father went insane.
(b) When the Germans arrived in 1915.
(c) When the father was imprisoned.
(d) When the mother took a job in Paris.

4. When did Bataille form the Popular Front?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1935.

5. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?
(a) Breton might have promoted it.
(b) Breton ruined Bataille in revenge.
(c) Breton's friends excommunicated Bataille from the surrealist circles.
(d) Bataille lost friends over the gratuitous attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Breton call Bataille?

2. What does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?

3. What was the subject of Bataille's first pamphlet?

4. How does "The Language of Flowers" end?

5. What description fits with the "Acephale" group?

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