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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "Annabel Lee"?
(a) Arthur Rimbaud.
(b) Comte de Lautréamont.
(c) Alfred Jarry.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

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

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

4. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?
(a) "Myself and her."
(b) "Myself."
(c) "Tarot and love."
(d) "Cards and wine."

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

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

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

8. 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) Antonin Artaud.
(b) Francois Depardieux.
(c) Jacques Vaché.
(d) Stephen Mallarmé.

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

10. What was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, an Uruguayan-born French poet?
(a) Alfred Jarry.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Comte de Lautréamont.
(d) Arthur Rimbaud.

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

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

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

14. 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) Marquis de Sade.
(d) Andre Breton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled?

2. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?

3. What French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, was best known for his work, Ubu Roi?

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

5. What Austrian neurologist founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry?

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