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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was L'Age d'or released?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1925..
(c) 1930.
(d) 1909.

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?
(a) Trust.
(b) Butter.
(c) Honey.
(d) Truth.

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

5. Regarding the poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, ""I say that there isn't anything in this poem of 1923 that did not announce the most important thing to happen to me in ____."
(a) 1940.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Breton see as a monument to things that are hidden, in Section 4?

2. Jacqueline Lamba was which of Andre Breton's wives?

3. In what year did Breton describe a trip to Brittany, in Section 6?

4. Breton claimed in Section 3 that the found object acted as a _____ for Giacometti.

5. Who painted The House of the Hanged Man?

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