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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?
(a) Dr. Jung.
(b) Dr. Rank.
(c) Dr. Dausse.
(d) Dr. Adler.

2. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?
(a) For admiring Emerson.
(b) For megalomania and failure of ideas.
(c) For going insane.
(d) For failing to embrace the decomposition of culture.

3. How does Bataille describe his work?
(a) Hydrocephalic.
(b) Bicephalic.
(c) Monocephalic.
(d) Acephalic.

4. When did Bataille deny his faith?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1919.

5. What was the "Acephale" group's primary purpose?
(a) To recreate the myth of God.
(b) To kill God.
(c) To annihilate the idea of God.
(d) To come into contact with God in men.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Breton call Bataille?

4. What does Bataille say conspicuous consumption was used for?

5. What writer coined the term conspicuous consumption?

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