2. What does Bataille say is the contradiction in Christians worshiping God?
(a) They only go to church one day a week, but work the other six in profane employments.
(b) They hold people to scripture in private life but not in the marketplace.
(c) They keep the poor down while their worship exalts them.
(d) They elevate God's power, but claim it for themselves alone.

3. What was Bataille summing up in his "Propositions"?
(a) His thoughts on Nietzschean metaphysics.
(b) His thoughts on the death of God.
(c) His thoughts on modern culture.
(d) His thoughts on sex and perversity in modern life.

4. Who is Elisabeth Judas-Forster?
(a) Bataille's girlfriend.
(b) A critic of Bataille's.
(c) Nietzsche's sister.
(d) Andre Masson's lover.

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

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

7. What does Bataille describe as the only truly liberating act?
(a) Art.
(b) Revolutionary destruction.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Lovemaking.

8. With whose picture does Bataille say Nietzsche's picture was paired?
(a) Lou Andreas-Salomé's.
(b) Darwin's.
(c) Hitler's.
(d) Hegel's.

9. Who is the audience for "The Practice of Joy before Death"?
(a) Those who believe in no beyond.
(b) The Catholic Church.
(c) Those who are ill.
(d) Those who believe in man's innate divinity.

10. How did Bataille relate to Andre Masson's drawings?
(a) He saw himself as the self in flight.
(b) He saw himself as the lines and the paper themselves.
(c) He saw himself as the entire cosmos.
(d) He saw himself as the sick man.

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

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

13. What does Bataille say the theory of conspicuous consumption is used for?
(a) Preserving segregation between rich and poor.
(b) Keeping the poor weak.
(c) Giving the poor opportunities.
(d) Melting different cultures together in America.

14. How did Andre Masson establish the tone of his book of drawings?
(a) With a drawing of a prostitute.
(b) With a drawing of God parting the clouds in judgment.
(c) With a drawing of a syphilis cell.
(d) With a drawing of an acephalic man.

15. Where does fascism originate?
(a) Among the workers who seize control of the means of production.
(b) Among the rich who are threatened by an outside group.
(c) Among the poor who have nothing to establish power.
(d) Among the middle classes who want to control the proletariat.