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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book's last line stated, "beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all"?
(a) La Revolver à cheveux blancs.
(b) Nadja.
(c) Un Cadavre.
(d) Ralentir travaux.

2. 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?
(a) Francois Depardieux.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Jacques Vaché.
(d) Stephen Mallarmé.

3. What French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, was best known for his work, Ubu Roi?
(a) Jacques Vaché.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Alfred Jarry.
(d) Francois Depardieux.

4. 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."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of brooch was the waitress in the diner wearing, as described by Breton in Section 1?

2. Breton argues that "convulsive beauty" must be seen in terms of the object in motion, and how?

3. The Hegelian dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and what?

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. 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?

(see the answer key)

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