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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 does Baumler call revolution?
(a) Renewal of the past.
(b) Awareness of the future.
(c) Rebellion against modernity.
(d) Social engineering.

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

3. What did Hegel claim about nature?
(a) That it contained the world-spirit.
(b) That it was the human soul externalized.
(c) That it was motivated by the Oversoul.
(d) That it was unreasonable.

4. When does an obelisk cease to be meaningful?
(a) As soon as the authority it symbolizes becomes conscious.
(b) When the military leader who erected it dies.
(c) When the people have more important needs.
(d) When the political party that built it is voted out.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille say about a man who knows his neighbors?

2. What does Bataille say profit leads to, in "The Labyrinth"?

3. What does Bataille say poor people cannot stop rich people from doing?

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

5. What does Bataille say democracy is based on?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bataille portray Engels' interpretation of Hegel's philosophy in "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?

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

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

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

5. Summarize Nicolai Hartmann's interpretation of Hegel.

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

7. How do Fascists define God, in Bataille's account in "Propositions"?

8. What does Bataille see as the value of Christianity of in "The Notion of Expenditure"?

9. How does Alfred Rosenberg clarify the issue of Nietzsche's relationship with the Fascists?

10. What is the essence of Bataille's essay "The Practice of Joy before Death"?

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