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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled?
(a) Chance.
(b) Structure.
(c) Arbitration.
(d) Randomness.

2. What refers to everyday items that can be transformed into art objects or reinterpreted as objects outside their intended utilitarian purpose?
(a) Catalyst items.
(b) Creative items.
(c) Art items.
(d) Found items.

3. What French poet produced his best known works while still in his late teens and gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21?
(a) Alfred Jarry.
(b) Arthur Rimbaud.
(c) Antonin Artaud.
(d) Jacques Vaché.

4. Who published Illuminations in 1874?
(a) Arthur Rimbaud.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Comte de Lautréamont.
(d) Alfred Jarry.

5. While the responses of the survey from Section 2 were largely insufficient, there was enough interesting material there that Breton felt what?
(a) There was more to say.
(b) There was some scientific justification.
(c) There was reason to send them again.
(d) There was reason to use them, regardless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?

2. What term relates to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies?

3. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?

4. What German social scientist, author, political theorist and philosopher co-founded communist theory, alongside Karl Marx?

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

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