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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What French Poet's last major work, Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ('A roll of the dice will never abolish chance'), was published in 1897?
(a) Jacques Vaché.
(b) Francois Depardieux.
(c) Stephen Mallarmé.
(d) Antonin Artaud.

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

3. What refers to the practice of marriage with only one person at a time?
(a) Unigamy.
(b) Bigamy.
(c) Polygamy.
(d) Monogamy.

4. In reviewing his poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, "Today I am unhesitatingly convinced of its profound ____."
(a) Success.
(b) Immediacy.
(c) Importance.
(d) Failure.

5. What French poet produced his best known works while still in his late teens and gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21?
(a) Antonin Artaud.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Arthur Rimbaud.
(d) Alfred Jarry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Breton wrote, "What is required most earnestly to keep up this sort of life loses all its value at the passage of the great _____."

2. Who wrote The Poverty of Philosophy?

3. What astrological sign was Andre Breton?

4. To whom is Section 7 of Mad Love addressed?

5. What story did the spoon from the flea market evoke for Breton?

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