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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Neurotisicm.
(c) Venus complex.
(d) Aphrodite complex.

2. 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 son's.
(d) His wife's.

3. The Hegelian dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and what?
(a) Conclusion.
(b) Synthesis.
(c) Finale.
(d) Thesis.

4. 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) Gun.
(c) Thin paper.
(d) Thin blade.

5. What book's last line stated, "beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all"?
(a) Ralentir travaux.
(b) Un Cadavre.
(c) La Revolver à cheveux blancs.
(d) Nadja.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second of the two essential questions posed by Breton in Section 2?

2. What was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, an Uruguayan-born French poet?

3. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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