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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Love.
(b) Fate.
(c) Desire.
(d) Chance.

3. Breton wrote, "What is required most earnestly to keep up this sort of life loses all its value at the passage of the great _____."
(a) Mad love.
(b) Dream fruits.
(c) Dream fantasy.
(d) Dream trees.

4. When was The Communist Manifesto produced?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1900.

5. What French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist helped initiate the periodical Littérature?
(a) Antonin Artaud.
(b) Philippe Soupault.
(c) Charles Baudelaire.
(d) Pierre Reverdy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker created the monument on the grave of Gerda Taro at Père Lachaise Cemetery?

2. Breton writes in Section 1, "In order to have a woman appear, I have seen myself opening a door, shutting it, opening it again -- when I had noticed that it was not enough to slip a ____ into a book chosen at random."

3. Who wrote The Poverty of Philosophy?

4. With whom did Breton recount a conversation in the first postscript of Section 3?

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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