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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Breton argues that "convulsive beauty" must be seen in terms of the object in motion, and how?
(a) In the mind.
(b) In existence.
(c) In repose.
(d) In space.

2. What comprises that organized part of the personality structure that criticizes and prohibits his or her drives, fantasies, feelings, and actions?
(a) Ego.
(b) Super-ego.
(c) Id.
(d) Self.

3. Who wrote Alice in Wonderland?
(a) Richard Burns.
(b) F. Walter Scott.
(c) Andre Breton.
(d) Lewis Carroll.

4. What did Breton note was "lacking" in Giacometti's sculpture?
(a) The torso.
(b) The legs.
(c) The face.
(d) The arms.

5. What French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist helped initiate the periodical Littérature?
(a) Antonin Artaud.
(b) Philippe Soupault.
(c) Charles Baudelaire.
(d) Pierre Reverdy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The only works published of Comte de Lautréamont include Les Chants de Maldoror and what?

2. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?

3. 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"?

4. Which component of Freud's psychological model acts according to the "pleasure principle", seeking to avoid pain or displeasure aroused by increases in instinctual tension?

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

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