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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 ruined Bataille in revenge.
(c) Breton's friends excommunicated Bataille from the surrealist circles.
(d) Breton might have promoted it.

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

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

4. What does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?
(a) Obsession with excrement.
(b) Obsession with priests.
(c) Homoerotic terror.
(d) Oedipal terror.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bataille say about his book "W.C."?

2. How does dialectic operate in "Notion of Expenditure"?

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

4. In what piece of writing did Bataille record his childhood?

5. When did Bataille and his mother abandon his father?

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