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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did Bataille join with to form the Popular Front?
(a) Marinetti.
(b) Marx.
(c) Breton.
(d) Picasso.

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

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

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

5. Where was Bataille born?
(a) Paris.
(b) Nancy.
(c) Reims.
(d) Pau.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two stances did Bataille combine?

2. How did Bataille rebel against his father?

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

4. What was the "Acephale" group's primary purpose?

5. Whom does Bataille refer to as untouchables in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?

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