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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 absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled?
(a) Structure.
(b) Arbitration.
(c) Chance.
(d) Randomness.

2. 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) Marquis de Sade.
(b) Andre Breton.
(c) Antonin Artaud.
(d) Charles Baudelaire.

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

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

5. Breton claimed in Section 3 that the found object acted as a _____ for Giacometti.
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Detriment.
(c) Objective.
(d) Muse.

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

7. Surrealist theory argues that what are important for the shock and surprise they elicit?
(a) Symbols.
(b) Themes.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Juxtapositions.

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) Super-ego.
(c) Id.
(d) Ego.

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

10. What was the second object found by Breton and his friend at the flea market in Section 3?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A doll.
(c) A spoon.
(d) A mask.

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

12. What year was it that Breton recounted going to a restaurant, in Section 1?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1934.

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

14. Who published Civilization and Its Discontents?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Friedrich Engels.

15. When was The Communist Manifesto produced?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1890.

Short Answer Questions

1. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?

2. What story did the spoon from the flea market evoke for Breton?

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

4. What refers to the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference?

5. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?

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