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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of behavior did Breton write love "stirred up" in Section 4?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Lyrical.
(c) Inexplicable.
(d) Sardonic.

3. While Section 5 ends by extolling love and passion, Section 6 emphasizes what?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Discord.
(c) Evil.
(d) Harmony.

4. Where did Breton go to the top of a volcano in Section 5?
(a) Gran Canaria.
(b) Tenerife.
(c) Lanzarote.
(d) La Palma.

5. Jacqueline Lamba was which of Andre Breton's wives?
(a) Third.
(b) Second.
(c) First.
(d) Fourth.

6. Who directed the film, L'Age d'or?
(a) Luis Bunuel.
(b) Andre Breton.
(c) Salvador Dali.
(d) Paul Cezanne.

7. Where was Salvador Dali from?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) Spain.

8. In what year was "Sunflower" written?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1925.

9. What did Breton note about the stories of Venus in Section 6?
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Murder.
(c) Passion.
(d) Abandonment.

10. Who was Jacqueline Lamba's second husband?
(a) David Hare.
(b) Andrew Lloyd Webber.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) James Joyce.

11. In what year was Salvador Dali born?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1904.

12. In the end of Section 4, Breton sat in a restaurant with Paul Eluard and who?
(a) Aube.
(b) René Char.
(c) Salvador Dali.
(d) Paul Cezanne.

13. In its ability to foresee his relationship with Lamba, Breton referred to the poem "Sunflower" as a poem of what?
(a) Fate.
(b) Occult.
(c) Prophecy.
(d) God.

14. What astrological sign was Andre Breton?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Pisces.
(c) Capricorn.
(d) Virgo.

15. Who wrote Alice in Wonderland?
(a) Lewis Carroll.
(b) Andre Breton.
(c) Richard Burns.
(d) F. Walter Scott.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Breton write that he considered "temptation" to be?

2. According to Breton, "____, the only motive of the world, ____, the only rigor humans must be acquainted with, where could I better situated to adore it than on the inside of the cloud?

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 _____."

4. What refers to the practice of marriage with only one person at a time?

5. In Section 5, Breton made the connection between lovers as linked and lacy grass and as what in turn?

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