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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Breton relate a trip to a flea market in Section 3?
(a) Alberto Giacometti.
(b) Paul Cezanne.
(c) Salvador Dali.
(d) Paul Eluard.

2. Whose photography is featured throughout Mad Love?
(a) Ansel Adam's.
(b) Pablo Picasso's.
(c) Gustav Klimt's.
(d) Man Ray's.

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

4. Breton writes in Section 1, "In order to have a woman appear, I have seen myself opening a door, shutting it, opening it again -- when I had noticed that it was not enough to slip a ____ into a book chosen at random."
(a) Thin paper.
(b) Poem.
(c) Thin blade.
(d) Gun.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. What did the dishwasher shout in the diner, as described by Breton in Section 1?

4. Where did Breton and Lamba pass after the Tour Saint-Jacques?

5. Breton regretted, in Section 4, that he no longer had the _____ of "Sunflower."

(see the answer key)

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