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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Ouija.
(c) Tarot.
(d) Hora.

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

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

4. Breton announces in Section 2 that one of the purposes of Mad Love will be to explore _____ encounter with chance.
(a) His wife's.
(b) His daughter's
(c) His son's.
(d) His own.

5. 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) Charles Baudelaire.
(c) Andre Breton.
(d) Marquis de Sade.

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

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

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

9. 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 father.
(c) His daughter.
(d) An unknown woman.

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

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

12. Which component of Freud's psychological model acts according to the "pleasure principle", seeking to avoid pain or displeasure aroused by increases in instinctual tension?
(a) Self.
(b) Ego.
(c) Id.
(d) Super-ego.

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

14. Section 3 begins by invoking one of the cornerstones of the avant-garde, referred to as what?
(a) The new.
(b) The obscure.
(c) The different.
(d) The rebellious.

15. What French Poet's last major work, Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ('A roll of the dice will never abolish chance'), was published in 1897?
(a) Stephen Mallarmé.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Antonin Artaud.
(d) Francois Depardieux.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was on the handle of the spoon found at the flea market in Section 3?

3. How many of the questionnaires sent out were returned with responses in Section 2?

4. Where did Breton meet Lamba?

5. When was The Surrealist Manifesto released?

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