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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 the state of being mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented?
(a) External.
(b) Desirious.
(c) Mad.
(d) Bothered.

2. What Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker created the monument on the grave of Gerda Taro at Père Lachaise Cemetery?
(a) Roberto Gogol.
(b) Paul Eluard.
(c) Paul Cezanne.
(d) Alberto Giacometti.

3. What is the name of Andre Breton's daughter, to whom much of Mad Love is dedicated?
(a) Aube.
(b) Augustine.
(c) Marie.
(d) Sarah.

4. Who wrote Mad Love?
(a) Andre Breton.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Luis Bunuel.
(d) Salvador Dali.

5. What book's last line stated, "beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all"?
(a) Nadja.
(b) La Revolver à cheveux blancs.
(c) Ralentir travaux.
(d) Un Cadavre.

6. 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) Hora.
(d) Mysticism.

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

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

9. 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) Death.
(b) Nurture.
(c) Life.
(d) Fight-or-flight.

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

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

12. What kind of brooch was the waitress in the diner wearing, as described by Breton in Section 1?
(a) Diamond.
(b) Crystal.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Moonstone.

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

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

15. Breton wrote in Section 3 that the meaning of the slipper in Cinderella is that of "lost object" and that to Breton it symbolized what?
(a) His mother.
(b) His daughter.
(c) An unknown woman.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?

2. While the responses of the survey from Section 2 were largely insufficient, there was enough interesting material there that Breton felt what?

3. What Surrealist journal is cited in Section 2 of Mad Love?

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

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