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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 Bataille say the world offers modern man to love?
(a) Nothing beyond self-interest.
(b) God and religion.
(c) A society to be assumed.
(d) The progress of capitalism to communism.

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

3. What does Bataille say man demanded of the earth?
(a) Necessity above the universe.
(b) Consolation below the earth.
(c) Productivity on the earth.
(d) Answers.

4. What aspect of the Marx/Hegel dialectic did professor Hartmann test?
(a) Descriptive accuracy.
(b) Reasoning.
(c) Aesthetics.
(d) Diagnostic accuracy.

5. How does bourgeois society enslave and degrade poor men, in Bataille's opinion?
(a) By showering them with goods.
(b) By forcing them to compete with machines.
(c) By preventing them getting medical attention.
(d) By keeping them poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille say Nietzsche questions?

2. What is the significance of the obelisk in "The Obelisk"?

3. How did fascists see Nietzsche?

4. What tone did Andre Masson establish in his drawings?

5. What does homogeneity depend on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Judging by "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic" and his other essays, what does Bataille see as the value of dialectics?

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

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

4. What aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy did the Fascists appropriate, in Bataille's account in "Nietzsche and the Fascists"?

5. How does the artist give meaning in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

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

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

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

9. How does a man find himself in "The Labyrinth"?

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

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