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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does "The Language of Flowers" end?
(a) With Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch putting out a priest's eye.
(b) With Sade tossing flower petals into a ditch of manure.
(c) With a girl being sent away to school.
(d) With students strangling a young woman.

2. What does Bataille say conspicuous consumption was used for?
(a) Destroying the foundation of wealth.
(b) Attacking the inequalities in the economy.
(c) Affirming the position of the rich.
(d) Devaluing the trappings of wealth.

3. Why did Bataille leave his job in 1942?
(a) He was ill.
(b) He was fired.
(c) He died.
(d) He fled the Germans.

4. What was Breton's response to Bataille?
(a) He praised the shocking images that would disturb the bourgeoisie.
(b) He condemned his pathological reasoning to the unreasonable.
(c) He refuted Bataille's arguments.
(d) He lamented the absence of any real philosophy at the core of Bataille's writing.

5. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?
(a) For going insane.
(b) For admiring Emerson.
(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. What is the benefit Bataille sees to having more than one meaning in his work?

3. In whose hands does Bataille describe conspicuous consumption as a tool?

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

5. Whom did the Popular Front join with?

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