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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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'Immaculée Conception.
(b) Ralentir travaux.
(c) Nadja.
(d) L'Air de l'eau.

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

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) Alfred Jarry.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Arthur Rimbaud.
(d) Jacques Vaché.

Short Answer Questions

1. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?

2. Who wrote Mad Love?

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

4. Who published Illuminations in 1874?

5. 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?

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