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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the first postscript of Section 3 written?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1934.

2. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?
(a) "Cards and wine."
(b) "Tarot and love."
(c) "Myself."
(d) "Myself and her."

3. What is the second of the two essential questions posed by Breton in Section 2?
(a) "What do you want the most out 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) "What is the meaning of life?"
(d) "What do you consider the essential encounter of your life?"

4. Who wrote The Poverty of Philosophy?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Benito Mussolini.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Friedrich Engels.

5. What did Breton see as a monument to things that are hidden, in Section 4?
(a) Tour Saint-Jacques.
(b) Villeneuve-les-Avignon.
(c) Bois de Boulogne.
(d) ÃŽle Saint-Louis.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Pierre Reverdy born?

2. What term refers to the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled?

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

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."

5. When was the second postscript of Section 3 written?

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