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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Breton define as "the form making manifest the exterior necessity which traces its path in the human unconscious"?
(a) Logic.
(b) Religion.
(c) Chance.
(d) Beauty.

3. What refers to everyday items that can be transformed into art objects or reinterpreted as objects outside their intended utilitarian purpose?
(a) Creative items.
(b) Art items.
(c) Found items.
(d) Catalyst items.

4. What was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, an Uruguayan-born French poet?
(a) Arthur Rimbaud.
(b) Alfred Jarry.
(c) Jacques Vaché.
(d) Comte de Lautréamont.

5. What French aristocrat and author from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century is known for his erotic and blasphemous novels, many of which were written while he was imprisoned?
(a) Marquis de Sade.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Charles Baudelaire.
(d) Andre Breton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was it that Breton recounted going to a restaurant, in Section 1?

2. What refers to the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference?

3. What refers to a mythological monster, half-man and half-bull?

4. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?

5. Where did Breton meet Lamba?

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