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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "Annabel Lee"?
(a) Alfred Jarry.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Arthur Rimbaud.
(d) Comte de Lautréamont.

2. What, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which concentrate on the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex?
(a) Neurotisicm.
(b) Venus complex.
(c) Aphrodite complex.
(d) Oedipal complex.

3. What did Breton note was "lacking" in Giacometti's sculpture?
(a) The face.
(b) The torso.
(c) The legs.
(d) The arms.

4. What Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker created the monument on the grave of Gerda Taro at Père Lachaise Cemetery?
(a) Paul Eluard.
(b) Roberto Gogol.
(c) Alberto Giacometti.
(d) Paul Cezanne.

5. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?
(a) "Is there a God?"
(b) "What do you consider the essential encounter of your life?"
(c) "What is the meaning of life?"
(d) "To what extent did this encounter seem to you, and, does it seem to you now, to be fortuitous or foreordained?"

6. What season was it that Breton went to the flea market with his friend in Section 3?
(a) Spring.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

7. How many of the questionnaires sent out were returned with responses in Section 2?
(a) Three quarters.
(b) All of them.
(c) None of them.
(d) Almost half.

8. What Austrian neurologist founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry?
(a) Friedrich Engels.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Carl Jung.

9. Surrealist theory argues that what are important for the shock and surprise they elicit?
(a) Symbols.
(b) Juxtapositions.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Themes.

10. In Freud's theory, the ego mediates among the ___, the super-ego and the external world.
(a) Self.
(b) Super-ego.
(c) Id.
(d) Ego.

11. Who wrote The Poverty of Philosophy?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Friedrich Engels.
(d) Benito Mussolini.

12. What was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, an Uruguayan-born French poet?
(a) Arthur Rimbaud.
(b) Comte de Lautréamont.
(c) Jacques Vaché.
(d) Alfred Jarry.

13. When was the first postscript of Section 3 written?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1950.

14. In Section 2, Breton sought to answer how one memory might stand out as being a "sign of the spontaneous, the indeterminate, the unforeseeable or even the _____."
(a) Unattainable.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Undoable.
(d) Unlikely.

15. Breton and his friend, in Section 3, associated the mask's original purpose as being what?
(a) French sabre mask.
(b) Russian sabre mask.
(c) British sabre mask.
(d) German sabre mask.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Breton recalls a trip to the flea market in what year, in Section 3?

3. What was the first object found by Breton and his friend in the flea market in Section 3?

4. Breton claimed in Section 3 that the found object acted as a _____ for Giacometti.

5. What American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement, was best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre?

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