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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of brooch was the waitress in the diner wearing, as described by Breton in Section 1?
(a) Diamond.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Moonstone.
(d) Crystal.

2. What term relates to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies?
(a) Occult.
(b) Heathenism.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Tarot.

3. Who first stated and established the Hegelian dialectic?
(a) Arthur Rimbaud.
(b) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(c) Comte de Lautréamont.
(d) Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus.

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

5. Breton writes in Section 1, "In order to have a woman appear, I have seen myself opening a door, shutting it, opening it again -- when I had noticed that it was not enough to slip a ____ into a book chosen at random."
(a) Thin paper.
(b) Thin blade.
(c) Gun.
(d) Poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Mad Love?

2. 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?

3. What French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, was best known for his work, Ubu Roi?

4. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?

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

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