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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?
(a) As a prophet.
(b) As a genius.
(c) As obsessed.
(d) As a pornographer.

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

4. What does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?
(a) Oedipal terror.
(b) Obsession with excrement.
(c) Homoerotic terror.
(d) Obsession with priests.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bataille say about his book "W.C."?

2. When did Bataille deny his faith?

3. How does dialectic operate in "Notion of Expenditure"?

4. When was "Acephale" published?

5. Whom does Bataille contrast to the sovereign in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?

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