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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 go to school?
(a) Ecole des Beaux Artes.
(b) Lycée International.
(c) Ecole des Chartres.
(d) Lycée Henry IV.

2. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?
(a) As obsessed.
(b) As a genius.
(c) As a prophet.
(d) As a pornographer.

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

4. What did Bataille describe in "The Lugubrious Game"?
(a) A brown smudge.
(b) Bestiality.
(c) Anal fixation.
(d) Sex play with eyeballs.

5. What writer coined the term conspicuous consumption?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Marx.
(c) Veblen.
(d) Engels.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did George Bataille die?

3. When did Bataille publish "W.C."?

4. How does Bataille describe his father?

5. How does Bataille describe his work?

(see the answer key)

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