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

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

3. What did fascism use Nietzsche's writing to oppose?
(a) The current political system.
(b) Sentimentalism.
(c) The policies of Daladier.
(d) The view of the past being taught in German schools.

4. What movement does Bataille say in "The Sacred" was heir to Vincent Van Gogh and Rimbaud?
(a) Cubism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Dadaism.
(d) Transcendentalism.

5. Under whom does fascism unite society, in Bataille's account?
(a) A leader who represents the lower common denominator of society.
(b) A leader who identifies with the individual everyman.
(c) A leader who represents the aristocratic self.
(d) A leader who identifies with the state.

Short Answer Questions

1. What creatures' 'being' does Bataille compare in "The Labyrinth"?

2. What does Bataille say is the only virtue for fascists?

3. Where does fascism originate?

4. How does bourgeois society enslave and degrade poor men, in Bataille's opinion?

5. From what does Bataille say Alfred Baumler distilled a doctrine of the people's will to power?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Bataille's notion of potlatch.

3. What is the importance of the obelisk in "The Obelisk"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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