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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The island volcano that Breton went to in Section 5 was a part of what body of islands?
(a) Mediterranean Islands.
(b) Spanish Canary Islands.
(c) Hawaiian Islands.
(d) Virgin Islands.

2. In what year was "Sunflower" written?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1923.

3. Jacqueline Lamba was which of Andre Breton's wives?
(a) Third.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Second.
(d) First.

4. What term refers to that of high moral, aesthetic, intellectual, or spiritual value; noble; exalted?
(a) Holy.
(b) Sublime.
(c) Supreme.
(d) Godly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Breton refer to as "a splendid fourteenth-century French town today abandoned to gypsies"?

2. In the end of Section 4, Breton sat in a restaurant with Paul Eluard and who?

3. What story did the spoon from the flea market evoke for Breton?

4. What poem of Baudelaire's is discussed in Section 5?

5. In reviewing his poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, "Today I am unhesitatingly convinced of its profound ____."

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