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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 happens when political action leads to nothing, in "The Sacred Conspiracy"?
(a) Enthusiasm meets a void.
(b) New political parties will form.
(c) The government will dissolve.
(d) The people will revolt.

2. What did Bataille intend to define "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?
(a) Dialectic politics.
(b) Dialectic philosophy.
(c) Dialectic limits.
(d) Dialectic aesthetics.

3. What results from acting in specialized areas, in Bataille's opinion in "The Labyrinth"?
(a) Man is impoverished.
(b) Man becomes a specialist.
(c) Man conquers the universe in its details.
(d) Man loses his innocence.

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

5. What feeling does Bataille say grows in response to revolutionaries?
(a) Distrust.
(b) Faith.
(c) Messianism.
(d) Disillusionment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two classes Bataille divides consumption into?

2. What circumstances must be in place for the science function to be served, in Bataille's account in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

3. What type of men's 'being' does Bataille compare in "The Labyrinth"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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