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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to everyday items that can be transformed into art objects or reinterpreted as objects outside their intended utilitarian purpose?
(a) Found items.
(b) Creative items.
(c) Catalyst items.
(d) Art items.

2. Who published Civilization and Its Discontents?
(a) Friedrich Engels.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Karl Marx.

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

4. In Section 3, Breton contrasts the sexual instinct with the ____ instinct as he describes how, unbeknown to him, two people had perused the same objects at the flea market, one of whom was a former lover of Breton's.
(a) Nurture.
(b) Fight-or-flight.
(c) Death.
(d) Life.

5. What refers to the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed?
(a) Religion.
(b) Fate.
(c) God.
(d) Logic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With whom does Breton relate a trip to a flea market in Section 3?

3. What term refers to the state of being mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented?

4. What story did the spoon from the flea market evoke for Breton?

5. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?

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