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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?
(a) Marquis de Sade's.
(b) Antonin Artaud's.
(c) Charles Baudelaire's.
(d) Andre Breton's.

3. In Section 2, Breton sought to answer how one memory might stand out as being a "sign of the spontaneous, the indeterminate, the unforeseeable or even the _____."
(a) Impossible.
(b) Unlikely.
(c) Undoable.
(d) Unattainable.

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

5. 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?
(a) Desire.
(b) Chance.
(c) Fate.
(d) Love.

6. 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) Alfred Jarry.
(d) Arthur Rimbaud.

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

8. What was the first object found by Breton and his friend in the flea market in Section 3?
(a) A spoon.
(b) A doll.
(c) A mask.
(d) A puppet.

9. Whose photography is featured throughout Mad Love?
(a) Gustav Klimt's.
(b) Ansel Adam's.
(c) Man Ray's.
(d) Pablo Picasso's.

10. What did Breton note was "lacking" in Giacometti's sculpture?
(a) The arms.
(b) The torso.
(c) The face.
(d) The legs.

11. What French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, was best known for his work, Ubu Roi?
(a) Francois Depardieux.
(b) Alfred Jarry.
(c) Jacques Vaché.
(d) Antonin Artaud.

12. What French aristocrat and author from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century is known for his erotic and blasphemous novels, many of which were written while he was imprisoned?
(a) Antonin Artaud.
(b) Andre Breton.
(c) Marquis de Sade.
(d) Charles Baudelaire.

13. What comprises that organized part of the personality structure that criticizes and prohibits his or her drives, fantasies, feelings, and actions?
(a) Super-ego.
(b) Self.
(c) Id.
(d) Ego.

14. 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) Neurotisicm.
(b) Aphrodite complex.
(c) Venus complex.
(d) Oedipal complex.

15. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?
(a) Sand.
(b) Building material.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Rock salt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the original French title of Mad Love?

2. What season was it that Breton went to the flea market with his friend in Section 3?

3. What Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker created the monument on the grave of Gerda Taro at Père Lachaise Cemetery?

4. What fragmented phrase had Breton thought of months earlier, which resurfaced after the flea market in Section 3?

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

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