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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While the responses of the survey from Section 2 were largely insufficient, there was enough interesting material there that Breton felt what?
(a) There was some scientific justification.
(b) There was reason to send them again.
(c) There was more to say.
(d) There was reason to use them, regardless.

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

3. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?
(a) Paul Eluard's.
(b) Andre Breton's.
(c) Antonin Artaud's.
(d) Sam Beckett's.

4. What refers to a pack of cards (most commonly numbering 78), used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games and for divination?
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Hora.
(c) Tarot.
(d) Ouija.

5. Where was Pierre Reverdy born?
(a) Sicily, Italy.
(b) Bois de Boulogne, France.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Narbonne, France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?

2. Who was the author of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State?

3. What refers to the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed?

4. Breton remarked in Section 4 that he had retained a copy of "Sunflower" for over how long?

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

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