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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?
(a) Breton's friends excommunicated Bataille from the surrealist circles.
(b) Breton might have promoted it.
(c) Breton ruined Bataille in revenge.
(d) Bataille lost friends over the gratuitous attack.

2. What is the benefit Bataille sees to having more than one meaning in his work?
(a) It keeps all Bataille's options open.
(b) It keeps the reader uncomfortable.
(c) It demonstrates the impossibility of truth.
(d) It gives a clearer statement of his thought.

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

4. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?
(a) For admiring Emerson.
(b) For going insane.
(c) For failing to embrace the decomposition of culture.
(d) For megalomania and failure of ideas.

5. How does Bataille describe his thinking in "Popular Front in the Street"?
(a) He said he could not escape from the logic of fascism.
(b) He said he had an indomitable democratic streak.
(c) He said he had a paradoxical fascist tendency.
(d) He said he worshiped the masses.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was George Bataille born?

2. What were Bataille's feelings for Breton?

3. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?

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

5. When did Bataille and his mother abandon his father?

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