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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The only works published of Comte de Lautréamont include Les Chants de Maldoror and what?
(a) Sunflower.
(b) Mad Love.
(c) Poésies.
(d) L'amour fou.

2. What year was it that Breton recounted going to a restaurant, in Section 1?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1925.

3. Who wrote Mad Love?
(a) Andre Breton.
(b) Luis Bunuel.
(c) Salvador Dali.
(d) Jacques Vaché.

4. Whose photography is featured throughout Mad Love?
(a) Ansel Adam's.
(b) Pablo Picasso's.
(c) Man Ray's.
(d) Gustav Klimt's.

5. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?
(a) Sand.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Building material.
(d) Rock salt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term refers to the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled?

3. Breton distinguishes in Section 1 between an object which is wished for and an object which is what?

4. On what date did Breton recount going to a restaurant, in Section 1?

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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