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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was The Surrealist Manifesto released?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1939.

2. On what date did Breton recount going to a restaurant, in Section 1?
(a) May 16.
(b) April 12.
(c) January 1.
(d) April 20.

3. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?
(a) Andre Breton's.
(b) Antonin Artaud's.
(c) Charles Baudelaire's.
(d) Marquis de Sade's.

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?
(a) Id.
(b) Ego.
(c) Super-ego.
(d) Self.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who published Civilization and Its Discontents?

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

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

4. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?

5. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?

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