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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?
(a) For going insane.
(b) For megalomania and failure of ideas.
(c) For failing to embrace the decomposition of culture.
(d) For admiring Emerson.

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

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

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

5. When did Bataille publish "W.C."?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1920.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does "The Language of Flowers" end?

3. Who introduced Bataille to surrealism?

4. When did George Bataille die?

5. What did Bataille write while he was working?

(see the answer key)

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