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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who first stated and established the Hegelian dialectic?
(a) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(b) Comte de Lautréamont.
(c) Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus.
(d) Arthur Rimbaud.

2. The film L'Age d'or was controversial because it was considered an attack on what?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Anglican Church.
(c) The Catholic Church.
(d) Western Civilization.

3. What Austrian neurologist founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Friedrich Engels.

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

5. What was the second object found by Breton and his friend at the flea market in Section 3?
(a) A mask.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A spoon.
(d) A doll.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Jacqueline Lamba born?

2. Breton noted in Section 2 that answering how a memory might stand out as a sign of the spontaneous was likely not an appropriate answer to be sought through what?

3. Who wrote Alice in Wonderland?

4. In his descriptions of Lamba, where did Breton write of "a tiny, unforgettable fern climbing the inside wall of an ancient well, the deepest, most somber, and most extensive of all those that I have ever leaned over"?

5. What did Breton note was "lacking" in Giacometti's sculpture?

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