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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.
(a) Fight-or-flight.
(b) Life.
(c) Nurture.
(d) Death.

3. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?
(a) Music.
(b) Theater.
(c) Dance.
(d) Sculpture.

4. What kind of brooch was the waitress in the diner wearing, as described by Breton in Section 1?
(a) Diamond.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Moonstone.
(d) Crystal.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Breton meet Lamba?

2. In his self-reflection, Breton argued, he could point out the most significant and trivial details of his life and link them to the importance of what?

3. What refers to a pack of cards (most commonly numbering 78), used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games and for divination?

4. Mad Love was written as a continuation of what previous work which explored a relationship with a woman who later turned out to be mentally unstable?

5. Breton wrote in Section 3 that the meaning of the slipper in Cinderella is that of "lost object" and that to Breton it symbolized what?

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