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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was The Surrealist Manifesto released?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1934.

2. What refers to a mythological monster, half-man and half-bull?
(a) Pegasus.
(b) Cyclops.
(c) Serotaur.
(d) Minotaur.

3. The Hegelian dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and what?
(a) Finale.
(b) Synthesis.
(c) Thesis.
(d) Conclusion.

4. Breton noted in Section 2 that answering how a memory might stand out as a sign of the spontaneous was likely not an appropriate answer to be sought through what?
(a) A test.
(b) Science.
(c) A magazine.
(d) A survey.

5. What German social scientist, author, political theorist and philosopher co-founded communist theory, alongside Karl Marx?
(a) Benito Mussolini.
(b) Friedrich Engels.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Carl Jung.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who published Illuminations in 1874?

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

3. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?

4. Surrealist theory argues that what are important for the shock and surprise they elicit?

5. The only works published of Comte de Lautréamont include Les Chants de Maldoror and what?

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