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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?
(a) Bataille lost friends over the gratuitous attack.
(b) Breton's friends excommunicated Bataille from the surrealist circles.
(c) Breton ruined Bataille in revenge.
(d) Breton might have promoted it.

2. How does Bataille describe his father?
(a) Financially secure.
(b) Blind, paralytic and syphilitic.
(c) Depressed and alcoholic.
(d) Frequently ill and mentally unstable.

3. What did Bataille write while he was working?
(a) Articles on philosophy.
(b) Book reviews.
(c) Art criticism.
(d) A medieval romance.

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

5. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?
(a) Dr. Dausse.
(b) Dr. Jung.
(c) Dr. Adler.
(d) Dr. Rank.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?

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

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

4. What did Breton call Bataille?

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

(see the answer key)

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