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

2. What does the homogeneous part of society purchase?
(a) Production.
(b) Capital.
(c) Unions.
(d) Workers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do men express their 'being', in "The Labyrinth"?

3. What does Baumler call revolution?

4. What approaches to Hegel's philosophy did Nicolai Hartmann compare?

5. How did Andre Masson establish the tone of his book of drawings?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Nietzsche respond to the decay of his culture, according to Bataille's essay "Nietzschean Chronicle"?

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

3. What is fascism's relationship with homo- and heterogeneity?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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