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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 born in Laval, Mayenne, France, was best known for his work, Ubu Roi?
(a) Antonin Artaud.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Francois Depardieux.
(d) Alfred Jarry.

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

3. What season was it that Breton went to the flea market with his friend in Section 3?
(a) Summer.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

4. Breton refers to the myth of Venus and the what?
(a) Golden Ring.
(b) Golden Apple.
(c) Golden Hind.
(d) Golden Harp.

5. What American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement, was best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Sam Shepherd.
(d) Jacques Vaché.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Pierre Reverdy born?

2. Breton distinguishes in Section 1 between an object which is wished for and an object which is what?

3. Breton and his friend, in Section 3, associated the mask's original purpose as being what?

4. In what year was "Sunflower" written?

5. Who wrote New Justine, which was lauded by Breton in Section 5?

(see the answer key)

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