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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The only works published of Comte de Lautréamont include Les Chants de Maldoror and what?
(a) Poésies.
(b) Mad Love.
(c) L'amour fou.
(d) Sunflower.

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

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

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?
(a) Fate.
(b) Chance.
(c) Desire.
(d) Love.

5. 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) Gun.
(b) Poem.
(c) Thin blade.
(d) Thin paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What French Poet's last major work, Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ('A roll of the dice will never abolish chance'), was published in 1897?

2. What term refers to the state of being mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented?

3. What fragmented phrase had Breton thought of months earlier, which resurfaced after the flea market in Section 3?

4. While the responses of the survey from Section 2 were largely insufficient, there was enough interesting material there that Breton felt what?

5. 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?

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