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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section I (1927-1930).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 could not escape from the logic of fascism.
(c) He said he had an indomitable democratic streak.
(d) He said he worshiped the masses.

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

4. What is the first stage of revolution, in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?
(a) Portraying your revolution as a utopian project destined to succeed.
(b) Appropriating the language with which groups claim power.
(c) Expelling a group from power.
(d) Staking a claim to a new kind of authority.

5. How did Bataille rebel against his father?
(a) By running away from home.
(b) By taking lovers.
(c) By becoming a Protestant.
(d) By quitting school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Bataille annoyed while riding his bicycle?

2. What relationship between events and things is Bataille describing in "The Solar Anus"?

3. What two stances did Bataille combine?

4. When did Bataille form the Popular Front?

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

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