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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is the 'me' free to accept individuality and transcendence, in Bataille's opinion in "Sacrifices"?
(a) When it is dying in peace.
(b) When it is dying in religion.
(c) When it is dying in freedom.
(d) When it is dying by violence.

2. From what does Bataille say Alfred Baumler distilled a doctrine of the people's will to power?
(a) Nietzschean religion.
(b) Nietzschean metaphor.
(c) Nietzschean politics.
(d) Nietzschean contradiction.

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

4. What results from acting in specialized areas, in Bataille's opinion in "The Labyrinth"?
(a) Man becomes a specialist.
(b) Man conquers the universe in its details.
(c) Man is impoverished.
(d) Man loses his innocence.

5. What circumstances must be in place for the science function to be served, in Bataille's account in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Science must be the only goal.
(b) Religion must be referred to in its sense of its goals.
(c) It must serve someone's sense of power.
(d) Profit must be part of the goal.

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

7. What does Baumler call revolution?
(a) Social engineering.
(b) Rebellion against modernity.
(c) Awareness of the future.
(d) Renewal of the past.

8. What was Nietzsche's relationship with fascism, in Bataille's account?
(a) He claimed to be a prophet of a culture of power.
(b) He was active in support of it.
(c) He was active in opposition to it.
(d) He was opposed to political parties.

9. What does Bataille's 'me in the void' realize in "Sacrifices"?
(a) That he doesn't exist.
(b) That he might cease to exist.
(c) That he might have to create himself.
(d) That he has dominion over everything.

10. What does Bataille describe in "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?
(a) How Marx's dialectic method was misinterpreted.
(b) How Hegel's dialectic method inspired revolutions.
(c) How Marx's dialectic method was developed.
(d) How Marx's dialectic method was critiqued.

11. What value does money articulate for workers?
(a) The value of their personal worth.
(b) The value of their status.
(c) The value of what they produce.
(d) The value of their ideas.

12. What does Bataille use as evidence of his position on dialectics?
(a) It does not account for avarice in the proletariat.
(b) It is a law made by interested people trying to hide their interests.
(c) It underestimates the value of aesthetics.
(d) It cannot explain the growth from child to adult.

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

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

15. How does bourgeois society enslave and degrade poor men, in Bataille's opinion?
(a) By preventing them getting medical attention.
(b) By forcing them to compete with machines.
(c) By showering them with goods.
(d) By keeping them poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille say is the only religion for fascists?

2. What claim does Bataille make in "The Obelisk"?

3. What does Bataille say scientists said about the dialectic?

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

5. What does Bataille say Nietzschean pride comes from?

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