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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. What writer coined the term conspicuous consumption?
(a) Engels.
(b) Veblen.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Marx.

2. When did Bataille publish "W.C."?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1902.

3. When was George Bataille born?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1902.

4. How do philosophers use natural forms, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) As metaphors for other natural forms.
(b) As symbols for the experience and association of natural forms.
(c) As primitive forms of the things themselves.
(d) As symbols of sacred abstraction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first stage of revolution, in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?

2. What did Bataille say about his book "W.C."?

3. What does Bataille say coitus is associated with, in "The Solar Anus"?

4. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?

5. Whom did the Popular Front join with?

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