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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?
(a) "To what extent did this encounter seem to you, and, does it seem to you now, to be fortuitous or foreordained?"
(b) "What do you consider the essential encounter of your life?"
(c) "What is the meaning of life?"
(d) "Is there a God?"

2. Where was Pierre Reverdy born?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Narbonne, France.
(c) Bois de Boulogne, France.
(d) Sicily, Italy.

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

4. In describing Lamba, Breton wrote, "This young woman who just entered appeared to be swathed in mist - clothed in" what?
(a) Fur.
(b) Fire.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Ice.

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) Handle.
(c) Story.
(d) Phallus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Jacqueline Lamba's second husband?

2. When was The Communist Manifesto produced?

3. Surrealist theory argues that what are important for the shock and surprise they elicit?

4. In Section 4, Breton cites one of his poems where the tower sways like what?

5. With whom did Breton recount a conversation in the first postscript of Section 3?

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