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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote The Poverty of Philosophy?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Friedrich Engels.
(c) Benito Mussolini.
(d) Karl Marx.

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

4. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?
(a) "What is the meaning of life?"
(b) "What do you consider the essential encounter of your life?"
(c) "To what extent did this encounter seem to you, and, does it seem to you now, to be fortuitous or foreordained?"
(d) "Is there a God?"

5. What term refers to a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment?
(a) Objective.
(b) Chance.
(c) Logic.
(d) Desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Surrealist journal is cited in Section 2 of Mad Love?

2. What did Breton define as "the form making manifest the exterior necessity which traces its path in the human unconscious"?

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

4. Which component of Freud's psychological model acts according to the "pleasure principle", seeking to avoid pain or displeasure aroused by increases in instinctual tension?

5. What book's last line stated, "beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all"?

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