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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Bataille work until 1942?
(a) El Prado in Spain.
(b) Ecole des Beaux Artes.
(c) The National Gallery in London.
(d) Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

2. What did Bataille write while he was working?
(a) A medieval romance.
(b) Book reviews.
(c) Art criticism.
(d) Articles on philosophy.

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

4. Whom does Bataille refer to as untouchables in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) The sovereign.
(b) The impoverished.
(c) The workers.
(d) The rich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bataille publish his first pamphlet?

2. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?

3. When did Bataille form the Popular Front?

4. What description fits with the "Acephale" group?

5. What writer coined the term conspicuous consumption?

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