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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Breton argues that "convulsive beauty" must be seen in terms of the object in motion, and how?
(a) In repose.
(b) In space.
(c) In the mind.
(d) In existence.

2. 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) Sam Shepherd.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

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

4. 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?
(a) Marquis de Sade.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Charles Baudelaire.
(d) Andre Breton.

5. What did Breton define as "the form making manifest the exterior necessity which traces its path in the human unconscious"?
(a) Chance.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Religion.
(d) Logic.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the responses of the survey from Section 2 were largely insufficient, there was enough interesting material there that Breton felt what?

2. What did the dishwasher shout in the diner, as described by Breton in Section 1?

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

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

5. 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?

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