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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What term refers to a violent agitation or disturbance; commotion?

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

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