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

Multiple Choice 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."
(a) Poem.
(b) Thin paper.
(c) Gun.
(d) Thin blade.

2. What was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel?
(a) Paul Eluard.
(b) Andre Breton.
(c) Antonin Artaud.
(d) Sam Beckett.

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

4. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?
(a) Marquis de Sade's.
(b) Charles Baudelaire's.
(c) Andre Breton's.
(d) Antonin Artaud's.

5. When was the second postscript of Section 3 written?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Poverty of Philosophy?

2. Breton and his friend, in Section 3, associated the mask's original purpose as being what?

3. With whom does Breton relate a trip to a flea market in Section 3?

4. On what date did Breton recount going to a restaurant, in Section 1?

5. Where did Breton meet Lamba?

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