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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his self-reflection, Breton argued, he could point out the most significant and trivial details of his life and link them to the importance of what?
(a) Chance.
(b) Love.
(c) Fate.
(d) Desire.

2. What term refers to a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment?
(a) Chance.
(b) Logic.
(c) Desire.
(d) Objective.

3. Breton refers to the myth of Venus and the what?
(a) Golden Apple.
(b) Golden Ring.
(c) Golden Harp.
(d) Golden Hind.

4. In reviewing his poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, "Today I am unhesitatingly convinced of its profound ____."
(a) Immediacy.
(b) Failure.
(c) Success.
(d) Importance.

5. Who was the author of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Friedrich Engels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to everyday items that can be transformed into art objects or reinterpreted as objects outside their intended utilitarian purpose?

2. 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 _____."

3. Who wrote The Poverty of Philosophy?

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

5. In what year did Breton describe a trip to Brittany, in Section 6?

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