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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 Baumler call revolution?
(a) Awareness of the future.
(b) Rebellion against modernity.
(c) Renewal of the past.
(d) Social engineering.

2. Where did Engels look for examples to test the dialectic method of Marx and Hegel?
(a) Nature.
(b) Religion.
(c) Lived experience.
(d) Politics.

3. What are the two classes Bataille divides consumption into?
(a) Productive consumption and wasteful consumption.
(b) Conspicuous consumption and invisible consumption.
(c) Conservation of life and productive activity.
(d) Sacrificial consumption and gift consumption.

4. Which of the following does Bataille NOT use as an example of unproductive expenditure without value beyond itself?
(a) Art.
(b) War.
(c) Luxuries.
(d) Public gardens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille say is the only religion for fascists?

2. What did Engels work for eight years to develop, but ultimately disavow?

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

4. Why is classical utility theory inadequate, in Bataille's opinion?

5. What does Bataille say scientists said about the dialectic?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Briefly describe the theory of conspicuous consumption.

8. What do Masson's drawing symbolize for Bataille?

9. What pattern for self-discovery does Bataille offer in "The Sacred"?

10. Summarize Nicolai Hartmann's interpretation of Hegel.

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