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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) A survey.
(b) Science.
(c) A magazine.
(d) A test.

2. What German social scientist, author, political theorist and philosopher co-founded communist theory, alongside Karl Marx?
(a) Benito Mussolini.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Friedrich Engels.

3. What refers to the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed?
(a) Fate.
(b) God.
(c) Religion.
(d) Logic.

4. Who wrote Mad Love?
(a) Jacques Vaché.
(b) Luis Bunuel.
(c) Salvador Dali.
(d) Andre Breton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Section 2, Breton sought to answer how one memory might stand out as being a "sign of the spontaneous, the indeterminate, the unforeseeable or even the _____."

3. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?

4. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?

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

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