View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did professor Hartmann dispute about the treatment of the Marx/Hegel dialectic?
(a) He objects that it is not grounded in political science.
(b) He objects that it is not a law of reality.
(c) He objects that it is only applicable in certain cases.
(d) He objects that it is based on pseudo-science.

2. What does Bataille say man demanded of the earth?
(a) Necessity above the universe.
(b) Productivity on the earth.
(c) Answers.
(d) Consolation below the earth.

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

4. Whom does Bataille say can never touch the reality of earth?
(a) Those who exploit the earth for profit.
(b) Fascists.
(c) Capitalists.
(d) Those who do not understand it.

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

6. What does Bataille define as a way to humiliate, defy, or obligate a poorer person as a show of destruction of wealth?
(a) Welfare.
(b) Potlatch.
(c) Public Assistance.
(d) Government subsidies.

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

8. What does Bataille say is the contradiction in Christians worshiping God?
(a) They keep the poor down while their worship exalts them.
(b) They elevate God's power, but claim it for themselves alone.
(c) They hold people to scripture in private life but not in the marketplace.
(d) They only go to church one day a week, but work the other six in profane employments.

9. What does Bataille say about meaning in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Things cannot have meaning unless they are historical realities.
(b) Things can only have meaning if they motivate actions.
(c) Things can only have meaning when they are fictitious.
(d) Things can only have meaning if there is a consensus about them.

10. Which of the following is one of the directions recomposition of society can take?
(a) Decomposing bureaucracy.
(b) Technological dictatorship.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Liberating myths.

11. What does Bataille say dominates history in "Popular Front in the Street"?
(a) Technologies.
(b) Revolutions.
(c) Democracies.
(d) Fascists.

12. From what does Bataille say Alfred Baumler distilled a doctrine of the people's will to power?
(a) Nietzschean contradiction.
(b) Nietzschean metaphor.
(c) Nietzschean religion.
(d) Nietzschean politics.

13. What does Bataille say pyramids ensure?
(a) Glory for the monarchs inside them.
(b) The eternally egalitarian nature of death.
(c) Limitless sky on earth.
(d) Eternal life.

14. How did Bataille relate to Andre Masson's drawings?
(a) He saw himself as the sick man.
(b) He saw himself as the lines and the paper themselves.
(c) He saw himself as the entire cosmos.
(d) He saw himself as the self in flight.

15. What did Hegel claim about nature?
(a) That it was motivated by the Oversoul.
(b) That it was the human soul externalized.
(c) That it was unreasonable.
(d) That it contained the world-spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of the obelisk in "The Obelisk"?

2. What did Bataille intend to define "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?

3. What did Bataille and Andre Masson dream about as Bataille was writing "The Labyrinth"?

4. What is classical utility theory inadequate to define, in Bataille's opinion?

5. What does Bataille say Nietzsche questions?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 608 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample