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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In reviewing his poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, "Today I am unhesitatingly convinced of its profound ____."
(a) Success.
(b) Immediacy.
(c) Failure.
(d) Importance.

2. Breton described feeling an overwhelming need for what, while in Brittany in Section 6?
(a) Affection.
(b) Reinforcement.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Love.

3. What astrological sign was Andre Breton?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Pisces.
(c) Capricorn.
(d) Virgo.

4. What was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel?
(a) Sam Beckett.
(b) Andre Breton.
(c) Paul Eluard.
(d) Antonin Artaud.

5. What is the name of Andre Breton's daughter, to whom much of Mad Love is dedicated?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Marie.
(c) Aube.
(d) Augustine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to that of high moral, aesthetic, intellectual, or spiritual value; noble; exalted?

2. Where did Breton go to the top of a volcano in Section 5?

3. Regarding the poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, ""I say that there isn't anything in this poem of 1923 that did not announce the most important thing to happen to me in ____."

4. 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?

5. 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?

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