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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 conspicuous consumption was used for?
(a) Devaluing the trappings of wealth.
(b) Affirming the position of the rich.
(c) Destroying the foundation of wealth.
(d) Attacking the inequalities in the economy.

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

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

4. What did "Acephale" primarily consist of?
(a) Surrealist writing.
(b) Anarchistic literature.
(c) Fascist rants.
(d) Bataille's writing.

5. When did Bataille publish his first pamphlet?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bataille leave his job in 1942?

2. Whom does Bataille refer to as untouchables in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?

3. What critique does Bataille make in "The Critique of the Foundations of Hegelian Dialectic"?

4. For what field did Bataille go to school?

5. What did Bataille write while he was working?

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