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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed?
(a) God.
(b) Religion.
(c) Fate.
(d) Logic.

3. 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 some scientific justification.
(b) There was reason to use them, regardless.
(c) There was reason to send them again.
(d) There was more to say.

4. Breton stated, in the first postscript of Section 3, that he had repressed the connection between the spoon and the what?
(a) Shoe.
(b) Handle.
(c) Story.
(d) Phallus.

5. When was the second postscript of Section 3 written?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1944.

6. In Freud's theory, the ego mediates among the ___, the super-ego and the external world.
(a) Id.
(b) Self.
(c) Ego.
(d) Super-ego.

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

8. What did the dishwasher shout in the diner, as described by Breton in Section 1?
(a) "S'il Vous Plaît."
(b) "L'Ondine!"
(c) "La bouche!"
(d) "Poisson soluble."

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What French poet produced his best known works while still in his late teens and gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21?
(a) Jacques Vaché.
(b) Alfred Jarry.
(c) Antonin Artaud.
(d) Arthur Rimbaud.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When was The Surrealist Manifesto released?

3. When was The Communist Manifesto produced?

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

5. Who published Illuminations in 1874?

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