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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'Air de l'eau.
(b) Manifeste du surréalisme.
(c) L'Amour fou.
(d) L'Immaculée Conception.

2. What refers to a mythological monster, half-man and half-bull?
(a) Minotaur.
(b) Pegasus.
(c) Cyclops.
(d) Serotaur.

3. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?
(a) "Cards and wine."
(b) "Tarot and love."
(c) "Myself."
(d) "Myself and her."

4. What refers to the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference?
(a) Logic.
(b) Chance.
(c) Fate.
(d) Structure.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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 _____."

2. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?

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

4. What refers to the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed?

5. What French Poet's last major work, Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ('A roll of the dice will never abolish chance'), was published in 1897?

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