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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Breton remarked in Section 4 that he had retained a copy of "Sunflower" for over how long?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 15 years.

4. When did Jacqueline Lamba die?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1990.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who published Civilization and Its Discontents?

3. What French aristocrat and author from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century is known for his erotic and blasphemous novels, many of which were written while he was imprisoned?

4. "Sunflower" is an example of what type of poetry?

5. What did Breton define as "the form making manifest the exterior necessity which traces its path in the human unconscious"?

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