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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bataille say democracy is based on?
(a) Free elections.
(b) Open debate.
(c) Free speech.
(d) A weak opposition.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. 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 was indifferent.
(d) Engels believed them, but Hartmann did not.

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

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

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

14. What is the significance of the obelisk in "The Obelisk"?
(a) It stands for the sovereign.
(b) It organizes space by looming over it.
(c) It represents captured glory.
(d) It represents the ruling party.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of the directions recomposition of society can take?

2. Who is Elisabeth Judas-Forster?

3. What does the homogeneous part of society purchase?

4. What does Bataille say the world offers modern man to love?

5. Who developed the theory of conspicuous consumption?

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