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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "Annabel Lee"?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Arthur Rimbaud.
(c) Alfred Jarry.
(d) Comte de Lautréamont.

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

3. When was The Communist Manifesto produced?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1900.

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

5. What French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, was best known for his work, Ubu Roi?
(a) Francois Depardieux.
(b) Alfred Jarry.
(c) Antonin Artaud.
(d) Jacques Vaché.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, an Uruguayan-born French poet?

2. 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?

3. What is the name of Andre Breton's daughter, to whom much of Mad Love is dedicated?

4. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?

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

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