2. In whose hands does Bataille describe conspicuous consumption as a tool?
(a) The intelligentsia.
(b) The middle class.
(c) The poor.
(d) The rich.

3. What does Bataille say the eye causes?
(a) Despair.
(b) Desire.
(c) Reverence.
(d) Anxiety.

4. What form does Bataille take after being a boy in "[Dream]"?
(a) A priest.
(b) An American gentleman.
(c) A butcher.
(d) A girl.

5. What do flowers witness, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) The architectural order of fields and forests.
(b) The reason for the plants' existence.
(c) Nothing but a moment in the life of the plant.
(d) The life and death of love.

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

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

8. 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.

9. Whom did the Popular Front join with?
(a) Fascists and totalitarians.
(b) Democrats and Socialist Democrats.
(c) Communists and Socialists.
(d) Bureaucrats and Communists.

10. What writer coined the term conspicuous consumption?
(a) Veblen.
(b) Engels.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Marx.

11. How does surrealism rebel at first, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?
(a) Without the lower classes.
(b) With all-out deformation of images.
(c) With all the proletarians.
(d) With subtle disorientation of meaning.

12. What does the title of "The Solar Anus" refer to?
(a) The regeneration of the universe in stars that eat planets.
(b) The passage out of purgatory.
(c) The source of all matter.
(d) The blinding effect of seeing a girl's anus.

13. How did Bataille rebel against his father?
(a) By taking lovers.
(b) By running away from home.
(c) By quitting school.
(d) By becoming a Protestant.

14. What strategy does Surrealism use for presenting images?
(a) Layers of each image are stripped away until the essential truth is apparent.
(b) Opposite images are contrasted.
(c) The images are distorted beyond recognition.
(d) Images are piled on, one after another.

15. What was the subject of Bataille's first pamphlet?
(a) Praise of Cathedral Notre Dame des Reims.
(b) Criticism of his father.
(c) Praise of his mother.
(d) Criticism of his religion.