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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his self-reflection, Breton argued, he could point out the most significant and trivial details of his life and link them to the importance of what?
(a) Chance.
(b) Fate.
(c) Love.
(d) Desire.

2. What term refers to the state of being mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented?
(a) Mad.
(b) Bothered.
(c) Desirious.
(d) External.

3. The Hegelian dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and what?
(a) Thesis.
(b) Conclusion.
(c) Synthesis.
(d) Finale.

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

5. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?
(a) Sculpture.
(b) Theater.
(c) Music.
(d) Dance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was The Surrealist Manifesto released?

3. What is the name of Andre Breton's daughter, to whom much of Mad Love is dedicated?

4. Breton noted in Section 2 that answering how a memory might stand out as a sign of the spontaneous was likely not an appropriate answer to be sought through what?

5. Breton writes in Section 1, "In order to have a woman appear, I have seen myself opening a door, shutting it, opening it again -- when I had noticed that it was not enough to slip a ____ into a book chosen at random."

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