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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Section 3, Breton contrasts the sexual instinct with the ____ instinct as he describes how, unbeknown to him, two people had perused the same objects at the flea market, one of whom was a former lover of Breton's.
(a) Life.
(b) Fight-or-flight.
(c) Death.
(d) Nurture.

2. Breton distinguishes in Section 1 between an object which is wished for and an object which is what?
(a) Dreamed of.
(b) Prayed for.
(c) Bought.
(d) Found.

3. While the responses of the survey from Section 2 were largely insufficient, there was enough interesting material there that Breton felt what?
(a) There was more to say.
(b) There was some scientific justification.
(c) There was reason to send them again.
(d) There was reason to use them, regardless.

4. Breton claimed in Section 3 that the found object acted as a _____ for Giacometti.
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Detriment.
(c) Muse.
(d) Objective.

5. Mad Love was written as a continuation of what previous work which explored a relationship with a woman who later turned out to be mentally unstable?
(a) L'Immaculée Conception.
(b) Nadja.
(c) L'Air de l'eau.
(d) Ralentir travaux.

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

7. Who first stated and established the Hegelian dialectic?
(a) Arthur Rimbaud.
(b) Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus.
(c) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(d) Comte de Lautréamont.

8. 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?
(a) A survey.
(b) A test.
(c) A magazine.
(d) Science.

9. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?
(a) Sculpture.
(b) Theater.
(c) Music.
(d) Dance.

10. What term relates to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies?
(a) Occult.
(b) Heathenism.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Tarot.

11. What fragmented phrase had Breton thought of months earlier, which resurfaced after the flea market in Section 3?
(a) Cinderella ashtray.
(b) Cinderella shoe-strap.
(c) Rapunzel hairbrush.
(d) Hanzel and Gretel ashtray.

12. Surrealist theory argues that what are important for the shock and surprise they elicit?
(a) Themes.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Juxtapositions.

13. What refers to a pack of cards (most commonly numbering 78), used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games and for divination?
(a) Tarot.
(b) Ouija.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Hora.

14. Who was the author of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Friedrich Engels.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Carl Jung.

15. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?
(a) "Is there a God?"
(b) "What is the meaning of life?"
(c) "What do you consider the essential encounter of your life?"
(d) "To what extent did this encounter seem to you, and, does it seem to you now, to be fortuitous or foreordained?"

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second of the two essential questions posed by Breton in Section 2?

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

3. Section 3 begins by invoking one of the cornerstones of the avant-garde, referred to as what?

4. Breton announces in Section 2 that one of the purposes of Mad Love will be to explore _____ encounter with chance.

5. Breton recalls a trip to the flea market in what year, in Section 3?

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