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

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

3. What does the homogeneous part of society purchase?
(a) Workers.
(b) Production.
(c) Capital.
(d) Unions.

4. What is the significance of the obelisk in "The Obelisk"?
(a) It organizes space by looming over it.
(b) It stands for the sovereign.
(c) It represents captured glory.
(d) It represents the ruling party.

5. What did Bataille and Andre Masson dream about as Bataille was writing "The Labyrinth"?
(a) An obscene dream they could never publish.
(b) A dream they were expressing in drawings.
(c) A dream they could not own.
(d) A dream they were setting to music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does homogeneity depend on?

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

3. What tone did Andre Masson establish in his drawings?

4. Who developed the theory of conspicuous consumption?

5. What does Bataille describe as a symptom of cultural crisis?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Bataille portray Engels' interpretation of Hegel's philosophy in "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?

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

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

6. Summarize Nicolai Hartmann's interpretation of Hegel.

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

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

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

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

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