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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement, was best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre?
(a) Jacques Vaché.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Sam Shepherd.

2. What term refers to a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment?
(a) Desire.
(b) Objective.
(c) Logic.
(d) Chance.

3. 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) Gun.
(b) Thin paper.
(c) Thin blade.
(d) Poem.

4. What Surrealist journal is cited in Section 2 of Mad Love?
(a) The Minotaur.
(b) The Venus.
(c) Literature.
(d) The Centaur.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?

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 original French title of Mad Love?

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

5. In Section 2, Breton sought to answer how one memory might stand out as being a "sign of the spontaneous, the indeterminate, the unforeseeable or even the _____."

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