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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what piece of writing did Bataille record his childhood?
(a) The Lugubrious Game.
(b) The Language of Flowers.
(c) [Dream].
(d) The Eye.

2. What critique does Bataille make in "The Critique of the Foundations of Hegelian Dialectic"?
(a) He demonstrated why dialectical materialism is inevitable.
(b) He mocks Marx and Engels for their idealism.
(c) He frees dialectical negation from Engels' mechanical abstraction.
(d) He criticizes the Oversoul as a childish fantasy.

3. What description fits with the "Acephale" group?
(a) Community organizers.
(b) Literature brotherhood.
(c) Secret society.
(d) Political underground.

4. What were Bataille's feelings for Breton?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Supplication.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was "Acephale" published?

3. Whom does Bataille contrast to the sovereign in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?

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

5. What did Bataille describe in "The Lugubrious Game"?

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