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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was on the handle of the spoon found at the flea market in Section 3?
(a) A shoe.
(b) A ring.
(c) A cat.
(d) A girl.

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

3. With whom did Breton recount a conversation in the first postscript of Section 3?
(a) Eluard.
(b) Aube.
(c) Cezanne.
(d) Giacometti.

4. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?
(a) Building material.
(b) Sand.
(c) Rock salt.
(d) Concrete.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was it that Breton recounted going to a restaurant, in Section 1?

2. What did Breton recall an early definition of as "big spoons, enormous bitter-apples, and chandeliers of soap bubbles"?

3. Breton distinguishes in Section 1 between an object which is wished for and an object which is what?

4. 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?

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

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