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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Bataille go to school?
(a) Ecole des Beaux Artes.
(b) Ecole des Chartres.
(c) Lycée Henry IV.
(d) Lycée International.

2. Where was Bataille born?
(a) Pau.
(b) Reims.
(c) Paris.
(d) Nancy.

3. What relationship do the writings in Section II have to the writings in Section I?
(a) They were unprecedented.
(b) They were logical extensions.
(c) They were implicit in them.
(d) They were unrelated.

4. What did Bataille say about his book "W.C."?
(a) It was a prophecy.
(b) It was going to destroy the world.
(c) It was opposed to all dignity.
(d) It was execrable and shouldn't be published.

5. Whom did the Popular Front join with?
(a) Democrats and Socialist Democrats.
(b) Bureaucrats and Communists.
(c) Fascists and totalitarians.
(d) Communists and Socialists.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bataille describe his father?

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

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

4. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?

5. When did Bataille deny his faith?

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