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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) Pierre Reverdy.
(b) Philippe Soupault.
(c) Charles Baudelaire.
(d) Antonin Artaud.

2. What term means an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Simile.

3. Breton and his friend, in Section 3, associated the mask's original purpose as being what?
(a) British sabre mask.
(b) Russian sabre mask.
(c) French sabre mask.
(d) German sabre mask.

4. When was The Surrealist Manifesto released?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1934.

5. Where was Salvador Dali from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Breton recount going to a restaurant, in Section 1?

2. When was Jacqueline Lamba born?

3. In his self-reflection, Breton argued, he could point out the most significant and trivial details of his life and link them to the importance of what?

4. What did the dishwasher shout in the diner, as described by Breton in Section 1?

5. What refers to the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed?

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