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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his descriptions of Lamba, where did Breton write of "a tiny, unforgettable fern climbing the inside wall of an ancient well, the deepest, most somber, and most extensive of all those that I have ever leaned over"?
(a) France.
(b) Japan.
(c) Israel.
(d) Egypt.

2. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?
(a) Antonin Artaud's.
(b) Andre Breton's.
(c) Marquis de Sade's.
(d) Charles Baudelaire's.

3. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?
(a) Andre Breton's.
(b) Paul Eluard's.
(c) Sam Beckett's.
(d) Antonin Artaud's.

4. What is the second of the two essential questions posed by Breton in Section 2?
(a) "What do you want the most out of life?"
(b) "To what extent did this encounter seem to you, and, does it seem to you now, to be fortuitous or foreordained?"
(c) "What do you consider the essential encounter of your life?"
(d) "What is the meaning of life?"

5. What Surrealist journal is cited in Section 2 of Mad Love?
(a) The Venus.
(b) Literature.
(c) The Centaur.
(d) The Minotaur.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month did Breton describe visiting Brittany, in Section 6?

2. In what year did Breton describe a trip to Brittany, in Section 6?

3. When was The Surrealist Manifesto released?

4. What French aristocrat and author from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century is known for his erotic and blasphemous novels, many of which were written while he was imprisoned?

5. What was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel?

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