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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Rock salt.
(d) Building material.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. What did the dishwasher shout in the diner, as described by Breton in Section 1?

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