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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III (1936-1939).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feeling does Bataille exaggerate in "The Lugubrious Game"?
(a) Mournfulness.
(b) Respect.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Irreverence.

2. What was the purpose of the Popular Front, in Bataille's account?
(a) To oppose immigrants in France.
(b) To overthrow the Vichy government.
(c) To oppose Hitler.
(d) To oppose fascism in France.

3. What feeling does Bataille say grows in response to revolutionaries?
(a) Faith.
(b) Messianism.
(c) Distrust.
(d) Disillusionment.

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

5. What does Bataille say surrealism is, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?
(a) A reaction against childhood idealism.
(b) A surplus of idealism.
(c) A childhood sickness of materialism.
(d) A form of world-weariness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bataille form the Popular Front?

2. When did Bataille publish "W.C."?

3. How did Bataille rebel against his father?

4. Why is classical utility theory inadequate, in Bataille's opinion?

5. What was the subject of Bataille's first pamphlet?

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