2. How does Bataille describe the Mithraic cult ritual of the sun in "Rotten Sun"?
(a) A priest cuts a victim's throat on an altar.
(b) A priest spatters a bull's blood on worshipers underneath.
(c) A priest stares into the sun to have a vision.
(d) A worshiper puts out a priest's eye.

3. What characterizes man in "The Eye"?
(a) Horror of eyes and insects.
(b) Longing for purity.
(c) Desire for violence and violation.
(d) Longing for sacrilege.

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

5. What was Bataille being punished for in "[Dream]"?
(a) Wetting himself.
(b) Staying up too late.
(c) Playing with a hoop.
(d) Seeing his parents naked.

6. What does Bataille say about monsters in "The Deviations of Nature"?
(a) That they are the best place to gain insight into people's feelings about themselves.
(b) That they are projections out of the ugliest part of humanity.
(c) That they are necessary to keep people in line.
(d) That they represent the opposite of geometric regularity of form.

7. What does Bataille remember his father spanking him with in "[Dream]"?
(a) A whip.
(b) A stick.
(c) A bloody toad.
(d) A belt.

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

9. Where does Bataille recall riding his bicycle in Reims, in "[Dream]"?
(a) On the beach.
(b) In his house.
(c) Through the streets.
(d) In the schoolyard.

10. What relationship do the writings in Section II have to the writings in Section I?
(a) They were unprecedented.
(b) They were implicit in them.
(c) They were logical extensions.
(d) They were unrelated.

11. What claim does Bataille discuss in "The Deviations of Nature"?
(a) That nothing is more horrifying than man.
(b) That nothing is more horrifying than rats at carnivals.
(c) That nothing is more horrifying than snakes.
(d) That nothing is more horrifying that carnival freaks.

12. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?
(a) Bataille lost friends over the gratuitous attack.
(b) Breton ruined Bataille in revenge.
(c) Breton might have promoted it.
(d) Breton's friends excommunicated Bataille from the surrealist circles.

13. What paradoxical action does Bataille describe in "Materialism"?
(a) The desire to stop using language for natural functions.
(b) The attempt to translate sex into language.
(c) The attempt to free the eye from aesthetics.
(d) The attempt to rid one's thoughts of spiritualism.

14. What did Breton call Bataille?
(a) A dubious genius.
(b) A prophet.
(c) An excremental philosopher.
(d) A incremental writing whore.

15. How does Bataille describe producing and selling in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?
(a) As primitive phases.
(b) As consumptive phases.
(c) As excretory phases.
(d) As revolutionary phases.