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

3. What critique does Bataille make in "The Critique of the Foundations of Hegelian Dialectic"?
(a) He frees dialectical negation from Engels' mechanical abstraction.
(b) He criticizes the Oversoul as a childish fantasy.
(c) He mocks Marx and Engels for their idealism.
(d) He demonstrated why dialectical materialism is inevitable.

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

5. What does the other self-mutilator (besides Van Gogh) do in "Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh"?
(a) Cut off his hand.
(b) Drink his own blood.
(c) Bite off his finger.
(d) Put out his eye.

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

7. How would you describe the images Bataille presents?
(a) Complementary.
(b) Incongruous.
(c) Nonsensical.
(d) Cumulative.

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

9. What does Bataille say coitus is associated with, in "The Solar Anus"?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Crime.
(c) Business.
(d) Comedy.

10. What does Bataille say surrealism is, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?
(a) A childhood sickness of materialism.
(b) A surplus of idealism.
(c) A reaction against childhood idealism.
(d) A form of world-weariness.

11. What principles does Bataille say men associate with height in "The Big Toe"?
(a) Strength and authority.
(b) Good and light.
(c) Trustworthiness and leadership.
(d) Power and danger.

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

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

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

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