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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What French poet produced his best known works while still in his late teens and gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21?
(a) Antonin Artaud.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Alfred Jarry.
(d) Arthur Rimbaud.

2. What did Breton recall an early definition of as "big spoons, enormous bitter-apples, and chandeliers of soap bubbles"?
(a) Automatism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Stream-of-consciousness.
(d) Dadaism.

3. Breton announces in Section 2 that one of the purposes of Mad Love will be to explore _____ encounter with chance.
(a) His own.
(b) His daughter's
(c) His wife's.
(d) His son's.

4. Breton distinguishes in Section 1 between an object which is wished for and an object which is what?
(a) Found.
(b) Bought.
(c) Prayed for.
(d) Dreamed of.

5. While the responses of the survey from Section 2 were largely insufficient, there was enough interesting material there that Breton felt what?
(a) There was more to say.
(b) There was some scientific justification.
(c) There was reason to send them again.
(d) There was reason to use them, regardless.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What season was it that Breton went to the flea market with his friend in Section 3?

3. What term refers to a violent agitation or disturbance; commotion?

4. In Section 3, Breton contrasts the sexual instinct with the ____ instinct as he describes how, unbeknown to him, two people had perused the same objects at the flea market, one of whom was a former lover of Breton's.

5. What refers to everyday items that can be transformed into art objects or reinterpreted as objects outside their intended utilitarian purpose?

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