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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Bataille rebel against his father?
(a) By becoming a Protestant.
(b) By taking lovers.
(c) By running away from home.
(d) By quitting school.

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

5. How does dialectic operate in "Notion of Expenditure"?
(a) It results from revolution.
(b) It prevents revolution.
(c) It animates class struggle.
(d) It pacifies the proletariat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What critique does Bataille make in "The Critique of the Foundations of Hegelian Dialectic"?

2. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?

3. What is the benefit Bataille sees to having more than one meaning in his work?

4. When did George Bataille die?

5. How does Bataille describe his father?

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