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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Ouija.
(b) Hora.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Tarot.

3. Who published Civilization and Its Discontents?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Friedrich Engels.

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) Concrete.
(b) Building material.
(c) Sand.
(d) Rock salt.

5. Breton stated, in the first postscript of Section 3, that he had repressed the connection between the spoon and the what?
(a) Shoe.
(b) Phallus.
(c) Story.
(d) Handle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Section 3 begins by invoking one of the cornerstones of the avant-garde, referred to as what?

2. New Justine was set against the backdrop of what location?

3. What term refers to that of high moral, aesthetic, intellectual, or spiritual value; noble; exalted?

4. When was L'Age d'or released?

5. In Section 2, Breton sought to answer how one memory might stand out as being a "sign of the spontaneous, the indeterminate, the unforeseeable or even the _____."

(see the answer key)

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