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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, an Uruguayan-born French poet?
(a) Arthur Rimbaud.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Comte de Lautréamont.
(d) Alfred Jarry.

2. What did Breton recall an early definition of as "big spoons, enormous bitter-apples, and chandeliers of soap bubbles"?
(a) Dadaism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Stream-of-consciousness.
(d) Automatism.

3. What is the second of the two essential 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) "What do you want the most out of life?"
(d) "To what extent did this encounter seem to you, and, does it seem to you now, to be fortuitous or foreordained?"

4. Section 3 begins by invoking one of the cornerstones of the avant-garde, referred to as what?
(a) The different.
(b) The rebellious.
(c) The new.
(d) The obscure.

5. Breton remarked in Section 4 that he had retained a copy of "Sunflower" for over how long?
(a) 25 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 15 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Breton recount going to a restaurant, in Section 1?

2. What term refers to the state of being mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented?

3. What book's last line stated, "beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all"?

4. What season was it that Breton went to the flea market with his friend in Section 3?

5. What German social scientist, author, political theorist and philosopher co-founded communist theory, alongside Karl Marx?

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