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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the original French title of Mad Love?
(a) L'Amour fou.
(b) L'Immaculée Conception.
(c) L'Air de l'eau.
(d) Manifeste du surréalisme.

2. Breton distinguishes in Section 1 between an object which is wished for and an object which is what?
(a) Found.
(b) Dreamed of.
(c) Bought.
(d) Prayed for.

3. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?
(a) "What is the meaning of life?"
(b) "What do you consider the essential encounter of your life?"
(c) "To what extent did this encounter seem to you, and, does it seem to you now, to be fortuitous or foreordained?"
(d) "Is there a God?"

4. The only works published of Comte de Lautréamont include Les Chants de Maldoror and what?
(a) Poésies.
(b) L'amour fou.
(c) Sunflower.
(d) Mad Love.

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) Self.
(c) Id.
(d) Ego.

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. Breton argues that "convulsive beauty" must be seen in terms of the object in motion, and how?

3. What refers to everyday items that can be transformed into art objects or reinterpreted as objects outside their intended utilitarian purpose?

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

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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