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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. In Freud's theory, the ego mediates among the ___, the super-ego and the external world.
(a) Super-ego.
(b) Self.
(c) Ego.
(d) Id.

3. Who was the author of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Friedrich Engels.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

4. Mad Love was written as a continuation of what previous work which explored a relationship with a woman who later turned out to be mentally unstable?
(a) Nadja.
(b) L'Immaculée Conception.
(c) L'Air de l'eau.
(d) Ralentir travaux.

5. What happened later the same evening that Breton wrote of having met Lamba?
(a) They had their first rendevous.
(b) They had an argument.
(c) They never spoke.
(d) They were married.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Section 5, Breton made the connection between lovers as linked and lacy grass and as what in turn?

2. With whom does Breton relate a trip to a flea market in Section 3?

3. In Section 5, Breton described some of the automatic writing games, including the repetition of some "childhood mirages," most notably the phrases "tree for bread" and "tree for" what?

4. What year was it that Breton recounted going to a restaurant, in Section 1?

5. What refers to everyday items that can be transformed into art objects or reinterpreted as objects outside their intended utilitarian purpose?

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