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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled?
(a) Structure.
(b) Arbitration.
(c) Chance.
(d) Randomness.

2. Who was the author of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State?
(a) Friedrich Engels.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

3. Mad Love was written as a continuation of what previous work which explored a relationship with a woman who later turned out to be mentally unstable?
(a) L'Air de l'eau.
(b) Ralentir travaux.
(c) L'Immaculée Conception.
(d) Nadja.

4. 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?
(a) Francois Depardieux.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Antonin Artaud.
(d) Stephen Mallarmé.

5. What French poet produced his best known works while still in his late teens and gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21?
(a) Antonin Artaud.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Arthur Rimbaud.
(d) Alfred Jarry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who published Illuminations in 1874?

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

3. What was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel?

4. What did Breton define as "the form making manifest the exterior necessity which traces its path in the human unconscious"?

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?

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