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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Andre Breton's daughter, to whom much of Mad Love is dedicated?
(a) Marie.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Aube.
(d) Augustine.

2. What kind of brooch was the waitress in the diner wearing, as described by Breton in Section 1?
(a) Moonstone.
(b) Crystal.
(c) Diamond.
(d) Ruby.

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

4. In his self-reflection, Breton argued, he could point out the most significant and trivial details of his life and link them to the importance of what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Fate.
(c) Chance.
(d) Love.

5. 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?
(a) Marquis de Sade.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Charles Baudelaire.
(d) Andre Breton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Surrealist journal is cited in Section 2 of Mad Love?

2. Who wrote "Annabel Lee"?

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

4. What refers to a mythological monster, half-man and half-bull?

5. What did Breton define as "the form making manifest the exterior necessity which traces its path in the human unconscious"?

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