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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Bataille say about his book "W.C."?
(a) It was opposed to all dignity.
(b) It was execrable and shouldn't be published.
(c) It was going to destroy the world.
(d) It was a prophecy.

3. When did George Bataille die?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1962.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bataille describe his thinking in "Popular Front in the Street"?

2. Whom did Bataille join with to form the Popular Front?

3. Where was Bataille born?

4. What did Breton call Bataille?

5. What was Breton's response to Bataille?

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