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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Breton meet Lamba?
(a) London.
(b) Rome.
(c) Venice.
(d) Paris.

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

3. 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?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Sam Shepherd.
(d) Jacques Vaché.

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. What was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel?
(a) Andre Breton.
(b) Sam Beckett.
(c) Paul Eluard.
(d) Antonin Artaud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Poverty of Philosophy?

2. While the responses of the survey from Section 2 were largely insufficient, there was enough interesting material there that Breton felt what?

3. 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?

4. Breton announces in Section 2 that one of the purposes of Mad Love will be to explore _____ encounter with chance.

5. What term refers to the state of being mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented?

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