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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did fascism use Nietzsche's writing to oppose?
(a) The policies of Daladier.
(b) Sentimentalism.
(c) The current political system.
(d) The view of the past being taught in German schools.

3. Who developed the theory of conspicuous consumption?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Thorstein Veblen.
(c) Max Weber.
(d) John Dewey.

4. What happens when political action leads to nothing, in "The Sacred Conspiracy"?
(a) Enthusiasm meets a void.
(b) New political parties will form.
(c) The people will revolt.
(d) The government will dissolve.

5. What approaches to Hegel's philosophy did Nicolai Hartmann compare?
(a) Historical and philosophical.
(b) Practical and theoretical.
(c) Verbal and reality-based.
(d) Feminist and modernist.

6. What does Bataille say dominates history in "Popular Front in the Street"?
(a) Technologies.
(b) Fascists.
(c) Revolutions.
(d) Democracies.

7. What does Bataille say is the only religion for fascists?
(a) Power.
(b) Technology.
(c) Race.
(d) Christianity.

8. Under what conditions can a state be democratic, in Bataille's opinion?
(a) When homogeneity happens spontaneously.
(b) When homogeneity can be broken up peacefully.
(c) When heterogeneity happens spontaneously.
(d) When heterogeneity can be controlled with force.

9. What claim does Bataille make in "The Obelisk"?
(a) That the past always has to be imported from elsewhere.
(b) That fascism is centered on the monuments it builds to itself.
(c) That there is no mystery in the world of spirit.
(d) That nationalism is never carved in stone.

10. Where did Engels look for examples to test the dialectic method of Marx and Hegel?
(a) Politics.
(b) Lived experience.
(c) Religion.
(d) Nature.

11. What does Bataille describe as the result of individuals asking critical questions, in "Nietzschean Chronicle"?
(a) Decomposition of civilization.
(b) Religious persecution.
(c) The emergence of civilization.
(d) The development of high society.

12. What tone did Andre Masson establish in his drawings?
(a) Biological-cosmological.
(b) Cosmological-orgiastic.
(c) Orgastic-ashen.
(d) Ashen-biological.

13. What did Hegel claim about nature?
(a) That it was the human soul externalized.
(b) That it was motivated by the Oversoul.
(c) That it contained the world-spirit.
(d) That it was unreasonable.

14. Which of the following is one of the directions recomposition of society can take?
(a) Technological dictatorship.
(b) Liberating myths.
(c) Decomposing bureaucracy.
(d) Nihilism.

15. How did Engels and Hartmann differ on the tenets of Hegel's "Philosophy of Nature"?
(a) Engels was indifferent to them, but Hartmann did not believe them.
(b) Engels did not believe them, but Hartmann did.
(c) Engels believed them, but Hartmann did not.
(d) Engels believed them, but Hartmann was indifferent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of the Marx/Hegel dialectic did professor Hartmann test?

2. What does Bataille say profit leads to, in "The Labyrinth"?

3. How did Bataille relate to Andre Masson's drawings?

4. What does Bataille say would result from a difference of events in his experience?

5. With whose picture does Bataille say Nietzsche's picture was paired?

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