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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Breton distinguishes in Section 1 between an object which is wished for and an object which is what?
(a) Bought.
(b) Dreamed of.
(c) Found.
(d) Prayed for.

3. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?
(a) Dance.
(b) Theater.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Music.

4. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?
(a) Antonin Artaud's.
(b) Marquis de Sade's.
(c) Andre Breton's.
(d) Charles Baudelaire's.

5. 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."
(a) Gun.
(b) Thin blade.
(c) Thin paper.
(d) Poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to a violent agitation or disturbance; commotion?

2. What was on the handle of the spoon found at the flea market in Section 3?

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

4. When was the first postscript of Section 3 written?

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

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