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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What critique does Bataille make in "The Critique of the Foundations of Hegelian Dialectic"?
(a) He frees dialectical negation from Engels' mechanical abstraction.
(b) He demonstrated why dialectical materialism is inevitable.
(c) He criticizes the Oversoul as a childish fantasy.
(d) He mocks Marx and Engels for their idealism.

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

4. Whom did Bataille join with to form the Popular Front?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Breton.
(c) Marx.
(d) Marinetti.

5. When did Bataille form the Popular Front?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. What description fits with the "Acephale" group?

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

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

4. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?

5. What is the benefit Bataille sees to having more than one meaning in his work?

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