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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which component of Freud's psychological model acts according to the "pleasure principle", seeking to avoid pain or displeasure aroused by increases in instinctual tension?
(a) Super-ego.
(b) Id.
(c) Ego.
(d) Self.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a mythological monster, half-man and half-bull?

2. 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 _____."

3. Who wrote "Annabel Lee"?

4. What is the second of the two essential questions posed by Breton in Section 2?

5. What refers to a pack of cards (most commonly numbering 78), used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games and for divination?

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