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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 is the only virtue for fascists?
(a) History.
(b) Germany.
(c) Language.
(d) Religion.

2. How did Andre Masson establish the tone of his book of drawings?
(a) With a drawing of a prostitute.
(b) With a drawing of God parting the clouds in judgment.
(c) With a drawing of an acephalic man.
(d) With a drawing of a syphilis cell.

3. What are the two forms of heterogeneity Bataille introduces in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) The Marxist revolution and the capitalist marketplace.
(b) The policeman and the drunkard.
(c) The sovereign and the worker.
(d) The bourgeois merchant and the Jewish banker.

4. What does Bataille describe in "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?
(a) How Hegel's dialectic method inspired revolutions.
(b) How Marx's dialectic method was developed.
(c) How Marx's dialectic method was misinterpreted.
(d) How Marx's dialectic method was critiqued.

5. When does being become undefined, according to Bataille?
(a) When it is discovered in another.
(b) When it is drawn from imagination.
(c) When it is projected beyond itself.
(d) When it is projected on an unworthy object.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille's 'me in the void' realize in "Sacrifices"?

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

3. What was the purpose of the Popular Front, in Bataille's account?

4. What does the cross demand, at the end of "Sacrifices"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does contemporary society offer men in "The Sacred Conspiracy", and what does man demand for himself?

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

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

4. Describe Bataille's notion of potlatch.

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

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

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

8. What is the difference between homogeneous and heterogeneous culture as Bataille defines them in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?

9. Summarize Nicolai Hartmann's interpretation of Hegel.

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

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