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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Surrealist theory argues that what are important for the shock and surprise they elicit?
(a) Symbols.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Themes.
(d) Juxtapositions.

2. What term refers to a violent agitation or disturbance; commotion?
(a) Explosion.
(b) Convulsion.
(c) Reaction.
(d) Expulsion.

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

4. Breton argues that "convulsive beauty" must be seen in terms of the object in motion, and how?
(a) In repose.
(b) In existence.
(c) In space.
(d) In the mind.

5. 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?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Jacques Vaché.
(d) Sam Shepherd.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, an Uruguayan-born French poet?

2. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?

3. The only works published of Comte de Lautréamont include Les Chants de Maldoror and what?

4. 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."

5. Who first stated and established the Hegelian dialectic?

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