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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did Breton recount going to a restaurant, in Section 1?
(a) May 16.
(b) April 12.
(c) January 1.
(d) April 20.

2. What Surrealist journal is cited in Section 2 of Mad Love?
(a) Literature.
(b) The Minotaur.
(c) The Centaur.
(d) The Venus.

3. When was Alice in Wonderland published?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1888.

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

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) 1934.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month did Breton describe visiting Brittany, in Section 6?

2. 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"?

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

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

5. What French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist helped initiate the periodical Littérature?

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