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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bataille say Nietzsche questions?
(a) How a people's spirit can be expressed.
(b) How a people's technology can be fulfilled.
(c) How an ideology can be invented.
(d) How an ideal can be discovered in the past.

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

3. How did fascists see Nietzsche?
(a) As a primary ancestor.
(b) As a traitor.
(c) As a martyr.
(d) As a prosecutor.

4. What does Bataille describe as a symptom of cultural crisis?
(a) Bureaucratic regulation.
(b) Administrative impudence.
(c) Outrageous profits.
(d) Technological incompetence.

5. What are the two classes Bataille divides consumption into?
(a) Conservation of life and productive activity.
(b) Productive consumption and wasteful consumption.
(c) Sacrificial consumption and gift consumption.
(d) Conspicuous consumption and invisible consumption.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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 keep the poor down while their worship exalts them.
(c) They elevate God's power, but claim it for themselves alone.
(d) They hold people to scripture in private life but not in the marketplace.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of men's 'being' does Bataille compare in "The Labyrinth"?

2. What does Bataille describe in "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?

3. What was Nietzsche's life dominated by, in Bataille's account?

4. What was Mussolini's relationship with Nietzsche?

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

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