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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Breton relate a trip to a flea market in Section 3?
(a) Alberto Giacometti.
(b) Paul Eluard.
(c) Paul Cezanne.
(d) Salvador Dali.

2. What German social scientist, author, political theorist and philosopher co-founded communist theory, alongside Karl Marx?
(a) Benito Mussolini.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Friedrich Engels.

3. What was on the handle of the spoon found at the flea market in Section 3?
(a) A shoe.
(b) A girl.
(c) A ring.
(d) A cat.

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

5. What American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement, was best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre?
(a) Jacques Vaché.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Sam Shepherd.

6. When was The Surrealist Manifesto released?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1939.

7. What did Breton define as "the form making manifest the exterior necessity which traces its path in the human unconscious"?
(a) Chance.
(b) Logic.
(c) Religion.
(d) Beauty.

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

9. How many of the questionnaires sent out were returned with responses in Section 2?
(a) All of them.
(b) None of them.
(c) Three quarters.
(d) Almost half.

10. What represents that organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions?
(a) Self.
(b) Id.
(c) Ego.
(d) Super-ego.

11. What refers to everyday items that can be transformed into art objects or reinterpreted as objects outside their intended utilitarian purpose?
(a) Creative items.
(b) Catalyst items.
(c) Found items.
(d) Art items.

12. When was the first postscript of Section 3 written?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1950.

13. Breton recalls a trip to the flea market in what year, in Section 3?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1934.

14. Breton argues that "convulsive beauty" must be seen in terms of the object in motion, and how?
(a) In repose.
(b) In existence.
(c) In the mind.
(d) In space.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the dishwasher shout in the diner, as described by Breton in Section 1?

2. What did Breton note was "lacking" in Giacometti's sculpture?

3. What was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel?

4. 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?

5. What term refers to a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment?

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