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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The Hegelian dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and what?
(a) Synthesis.
(b) Conclusion.
(c) Finale.
(d) Thesis.

4. Who wrote "Annabel Lee"?
(a) Alfred Jarry.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Arthur Rimbaud.
(d) Comte de Lautréamont.

5. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?
(a) "Cards and wine."
(b) "Myself and her."
(c) "Myself."
(d) "Tarot and love."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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."

4. What refers to a pack of cards (most commonly numbering 78), used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games and for divination?

5. Surrealist theory argues that what are important for the shock and surprise they elicit?

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