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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did George Bataille die?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1962.

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

3. When did Bataille and his mother abandon his father?
(a) When the father was imprisoned.
(b) When the father went insane.
(c) When the mother took a job in Paris.
(d) When the Germans arrived in 1915.

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

5. In what piece of writing did Bataille record his childhood?
(a) [Dream].
(b) The Eye.
(c) The Language of Flowers.
(d) The Lugubrious Game.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "Acephale" published?

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

3. For what field did Bataille go to school?

4. What did Breton call Bataille?

5. What did "Acephale" primarily consist of?

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