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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Bataille born?
(a) Pau.
(b) Nancy.
(c) Paris.
(d) Reims.

2. When did Bataille publish his first pamphlet?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1918.

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

4. What does Bataille say conspicuous consumption was used for?
(a) Devaluing the trappings of wealth.
(b) Affirming the position of the rich.
(c) Destroying the foundation of wealth.
(d) Attacking the inequalities in the economy.

5. How does Bataille describe his work?
(a) Monocephalic.
(b) Hydrocephalic.
(c) Bicephalic.
(d) Acephalic.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "Acephale" published?

2. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?

3. Whom did the Popular Front join with?

4. Who introduced Bataille to surrealism?

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

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