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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of the Marx/Hegel dialectic did professor Hartmann test?
(a) Reasoning.
(b) Descriptive accuracy.
(c) Diagnostic accuracy.
(d) Aesthetics.

2. What movement does Bataille say in "The Sacred" was heir to Vincent Van Gogh and Rimbaud?
(a) Cubism.
(b) Transcendentalism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Dadaism.

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

4. What does the cross demand, at the end of "Sacrifices"?
(a) Struggle with the lower self.
(b) Freedom from struggle.
(c) Struggle with insurmountable obstacles.
(d) Embrace in struggle.

5. What was the essay "Sacrifices" used as?
(a) A personal essay.
(b) As a preface.
(c) A criticism.
(d) A review.

6. How do men express their 'being', in "The Labyrinth"?
(a) By attaining their goals.
(b) By rebelling against themselves constantly.
(c) By struggling for unreachable satisfactions.
(d) By accepting the duality of their nature.

7. What was Nietzsche's life dominated by, in Bataille's account?
(a) Aggression toward the social world.
(b) Stifled affection for a woman.
(c) Puzzles in which he could see the nature of society.
(d) Obsession with a lost world.

8. Under whom does fascism unite society, in Bataille's account?
(a) A leader who identifies with the individual everyman.
(b) A leader who identifies with the state.
(c) A leader who represents the lower common denominator of society.
(d) A leader who represents the aristocratic self.

9. What does homogeneity depend on?
(a) Continual revolution.
(b) Owners keeping the workers down.
(c) Workers owning the means of production.
(d) A productive system.

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

11. What did professor Hartmann dispute about the treatment of the Marx/Hegel dialectic?
(a) He objects that it is not a law of reality.
(b) He objects that it is based on pseudo-science.
(c) He objects that it is only applicable in certain cases.
(d) He objects that it is not grounded in political science.

12. What does Bataille say money measures, in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) Status.
(b) Work.
(c) Power.
(d) Money.

13. What does Bataille say is the only virtue for fascists?
(a) Germany.
(b) Language.
(c) History.
(d) Religion.

14. Whom does Bataille say can never touch the reality of earth?
(a) Those who exploit the earth for profit.
(b) Fascists.
(c) Capitalists.
(d) Those who do not understand it.

15. What does Bataille say about a man who knows his neighbors?
(a) He replaces his life with the life of the community.
(b) He maintains his place in society by a network of lies and half-truths.
(c) He is larger than himself in his connection with an organic whole.
(d) He is a particle connected by instability to an entangled whole.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille say about meaning in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

2. What happens when political action leads to nothing, in "The Sacred Conspiracy"?

3. What is classical utility theory inadequate to define, in Bataille's opinion?

4. Why is classical utility theory inadequate, in Bataille's opinion?

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

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