2. What did Bataille describe in "The Lugubrious Game"?
(a) Sex play with eyeballs.
(b) A brown smudge.
(c) Anal fixation.
(d) Bestiality.

3. What kind of eye does Victor Hugo describe in a poem Bataille cites?
(a) An eye of surveillance.
(b) An eye of conscience.
(c) An eye of judgment.
(d) An eye of longing.

4. What is the benefit Bataille sees to having more than one meaning in his work?
(a) It gives a clearer statement of his thought.
(b) It demonstrates the impossibility of truth.
(c) It keeps the reader uncomfortable.
(d) It keeps all Bataille's options open.

5. How long does Bataille ride his bicycle for in "[Dream]"?
(a) Until darkness descends.
(b) Until he falls.
(c) Until he wakes up.
(d) Until he finds his father.

6. When was George Bataille born?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1902.

7. Whom does Bataille contrast to the sovereign in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) The Jews.
(b) The middle class merchant.
(c) The ignoble workers.
(d) The aristocrats.

8. For what field did Bataille go to school?
(a) Writer.
(b) Medieval librarian.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Renaissance art critic.

9. What was Bataille afraid of as a child?
(a) The Rain.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Rats.

10. How does dialectic operate in "Notion of Expenditure"?
(a) It animates class struggle.
(b) It pacifies the proletariat.
(c) It results from revolution.
(d) It prevents revolution.

11. How does Bataille describe his thinking in "Popular Front in the Street"?
(a) He said he could not escape from the logic of fascism.
(b) He said he had a paradoxical fascist tendency.
(c) He said he had an indomitable democratic streak.
(d) He said he worshiped the masses.

12. How do philosophers use natural forms, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) As symbols of sacred abstraction.
(b) As primitive forms of the things themselves.
(c) As symbols for the experience and association of natural forms.
(d) As metaphors for other natural forms.

13. In "Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh", how long does Bataille say it took Van Gogh to paint suns after his self-mutilation?
(a) Two years.
(b) Nine months.
(c) Six months.
(d) Fifteen months.

14. What feeling does Bataille exaggerate in "The Lugubrious Game"?
(a) Respect.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Mournfulness.
(d) Irreverence.

15. When was "Acephale" published?
(a) 1931 to 1944.
(b) 1942 to 1946.
(c) 1933 to 1937.
(d) 1936 to 1939.