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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the dishwasher shout in the diner, as described by Breton in Section 1?
(a) "L'Ondine!"
(b) "Poisson soluble."
(c) "La bouche!"
(d) "S'il Vous Plaît."

5. What, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which concentrate on the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex?
(a) Oedipal complex.
(b) Aphrodite complex.
(c) Venus complex.
(d) Neurotisicm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What German social scientist, author, political theorist and philosopher co-founded communist theory, alongside Karl Marx?

2. In Freud's theory, the ego mediates among the ___, the super-ego and the external world.

3. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?

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

5. How many of the questionnaires sent out were returned with responses in Section 2?

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