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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Bataille describe his thinking in "Popular Front in the Street"?
(a) He said he had a paradoxical fascist tendency.
(b) He said he worshiped the masses.
(c) He said he had an indomitable democratic streak.
(d) He said he could not escape from the logic of fascism.

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

4. Whom did the Popular Front join with?
(a) Democrats and Socialist Democrats.
(b) Communists and Socialists.
(c) Fascists and totalitarians.
(d) Bureaucrats and Communists.

5. What did Bataille describe in "The Lugubrious Game"?
(a) A brown smudge.
(b) Sex play with eyeballs.
(c) Anal fixation.
(d) Bestiality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two stances did Bataille combine?

2. When did Bataille form the Popular Front?

3. How did Bataille rebel against his father?

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

5. Why did Bataille leave his job in 1942?

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