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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fragmented phrase had Breton thought of months earlier, which resurfaced after the flea market in Section 3?
(a) Cinderella ashtray.
(b) Rapunzel hairbrush.
(c) Hanzel and Gretel ashtray.
(d) Cinderella shoe-strap.

2. When was the first postscript of Section 3 written?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1934.

3. Breton claimed in Section 3 that the found object acted as a _____ for Giacometti.
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Objective.
(c) Muse.
(d) Detriment.

4. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?
(a) "Cards and wine."
(b) "Myself."
(c) "Tarot and love."
(d) "Myself and her."

5. Breton argues that "convulsive beauty" must be seen in terms of the object in motion, and how?
(a) In the mind.
(b) In existence.
(c) In space.
(d) In repose.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

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

3. 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 _____."

4. What did Breton note was "lacking" in Giacometti's sculpture?

5. Where did Breton meet Lamba?

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