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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two stances did Bataille combine?
(a) Fulfillment and hollowing of man.
(b) Sacrilege and holiness of religion.
(c) Merging and independence of men and women.
(d) Elevation and desecration of man.

2. How does Bataille describe his thinking in "Popular Front in the Street"?
(a) He said he worshiped the masses.
(b) He said he had a paradoxical fascist tendency.
(c) He said he had an indomitable democratic streak.
(d) He said he could not escape from the logic of fascism.

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

4. When did Bataille publish his first pamphlet?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1921.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did the Popular Front join with?

2. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?

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

4. Where did Bataille go to school?

5. How does Bataille describe his father?

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