1. What, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which concentrate on the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex?
(a) Aphrodite complex.
(b) Venus complex.
(c) Oedipal complex.
(d) Neurotisicm.

2. Who published Illuminations in 1874?
(a) Alfred Jarry.
(b) Arthur Rimbaud.
(c) Jacques Vaché.
(d) Comte de Lautréamont.

3. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?
(a) "Tarot and love."
(b) "Myself and her."
(c) "Cards and wine."
(d) "Myself."

4. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?
(a) Sam Beckett's.
(b) Paul Eluard's.
(c) Andre Breton's.
(d) Antonin Artaud's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Breton noted in Section 2 that answering how a memory might stand out as a sign of the spontaneous was likely not an appropriate answer to be sought through what?

2. New Justine was set against the backdrop of what location?

3. What comprises that organized part of the personality structure that criticizes and prohibits his or her drives, fantasies, feelings, and actions?

4. What did Breton write that he considered "temptation" to be?

5. Who was the author of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State?

(see the answer key)

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