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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book's last line stated, "beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all"?
(a) La Revolver à cheveux blancs.
(b) Un Cadavre.
(c) Ralentir travaux.
(d) Nadja.

2. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?
(a) "Myself and her."
(b) "Cards and wine."
(c) "Tarot and love."
(d) "Myself."

3. What term refers to the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled?
(a) Arbitration.
(b) Chance.
(c) Structure.
(d) Randomness.

4. What is the original French title of Mad Love?
(a) L'Air de l'eau.
(b) L'Immaculée Conception.
(c) Manifeste du surréalisme.
(d) L'Amour fou.

5. Who first stated and established the Hegelian dialectic?
(a) Comte de Lautréamont.
(b) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(c) Arthur Rimbaud.
(d) Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of brooch was the waitress in the diner wearing, as described by Breton in Section 1?

2. Mad Love was written as a continuation of what previous work which explored a relationship with a woman who later turned out to be mentally unstable?

3. Breton argues that "convulsive beauty" must be seen in terms of the object in motion, and how?

4. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?

5. Breton distinguishes in Section 1 between an object which is wished for and an object which is what?

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