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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Bataille say scientists said about the dialectic?
(a) It was a matter of faith.
(b) It was the one true science.
(c) It was incompatible with science.
(d) It was demonstrated in evolution.

5. What does Bataille define as a way to humiliate, defy, or obligate a poorer person as a show of destruction of wealth?
(a) Public Assistance.
(b) Welfare.
(c) Government subsidies.
(d) Potlatch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what conditions can a state be democratic, in Bataille's opinion?

2. What does Bataille say is the contradiction in Christians worshiping God?

3. When is the 'me' free to accept individuality and transcendence, in Bataille's opinion in "Sacrifices"?

4. What was Nietzsche's relationship with fascism, in Bataille's account?

5. What does Bataille use as evidence of his position on dialectics?

Short Essay Questions

1. What flaw does Bataille identify in dialectic philosophy in "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?

2. What does Bataille say is the only true liberating act, in "Propositions"?

3. What is Bataille's interpretation of Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption?

4. What will cause the death and resurrection of God, in Bataille's account in "Propositions"?

5. How does Bataille reconcile the opposition between self and world in "Sacrifices"?

6. What is Bataille's theme in "The Labyrinth"?

7. How does Andre Masson create the tone of the drawings in the book for which Bataille wrote a preface?

8. How does Bataille describe the individual in "The College of Sociology"?

9. Describe Bataille's notion of potlatch.

10. When does Bataille date the origin of the Popular Front to?

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