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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment?
(a) Chance.
(b) Objective.
(c) Desire.
(d) Logic.

2. 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) Mysticism.
(b) Hora.
(c) Tarot.
(d) Ouija.

3. When was The Communist Manifesto produced?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1848.

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

5. What refers to a mythological monster, half-man and half-bull?
(a) Pegasus.
(b) Serotaur.
(c) Minotaur.
(d) Cyclops.

6. The Hegelian dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and what?
(a) Thesis.
(b) Synthesis.
(c) Finale.
(d) Conclusion.

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

8. What was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel?
(a) Paul Eluard.
(b) Andre Breton.
(c) Antonin Artaud.
(d) Sam Beckett.

9. 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 reason to use them, regardless.
(c) There was reason to send them again.
(d) There was some scientific justification.

10. What story did the spoon from the flea market evoke for Breton?
(a) Rapunzel.
(b) Hansel and Gretel.
(c) Sleeping Beauty.
(d) Cinderella.

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

12. 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'Air de l'eau.
(b) Ralentir travaux.
(c) Nadja.
(d) L'Immaculée Conception.

13. What season was it that Breton went to the flea market with his friend in Section 3?
(a) Winter.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

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

15. What refers to the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference?
(a) Logic.
(b) Fate.
(c) Structure.
(d) Chance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?

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

3. What term relates to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies?

4. Breton writes in Section 1, "In order to have a woman appear, I have seen myself opening a door, shutting it, opening it again -- when I had noticed that it was not enough to slip a ____ into a book chosen at random."

5. What did Breton define as "the form making manifest the exterior necessity which traces its path in the human unconscious"?

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