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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

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) Fate.
(b) Desire.
(c) Love.
(d) Chance.

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

3. What story did the spoon from the flea market evoke for Breton?
(a) Rapunzel.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Sleeping Beauty.
(d) Hansel and Gretel.

4. Which component of Freud's psychological model acts according to the "pleasure principle", seeking to avoid pain or displeasure aroused by increases in instinctual tension?
(a) Self.
(b) Id.
(c) Ego.
(d) Super-ego.

5. What German social scientist, author, political theorist and philosopher co-founded communist theory, alongside Karl Marx?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Benito Mussolini.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Friedrich Engels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Breton announces in Section 2 that one of the purposes of Mad Love will be to explore _____ encounter with chance.

2. What season was it that Breton went to the flea market with his friend in Section 3?

3. The only works published of Comte de Lautréamont include Les Chants de Maldoror and what?

4. Who published Illuminations in 1874?

5. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?

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