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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 more to say.
(d) There was reason to send them again.

2. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?
(a) Dance.
(b) Theater.
(c) Music.
(d) Sculpture.

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

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

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

6. Who was the author of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Friedrich Engels.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Karl Marx.

7. 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."
(a) Thin paper.
(b) Poem.
(c) Gun.
(d) Thin blade.

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

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

10. What Austrian neurologist founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Friedrich Engels.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

11. Breton noted in Section 2 that answering how a memory might stand out as a sign of the spontaneous was likely not an appropriate answer to be sought through what?
(a) A test.
(b) A survey.
(c) Science.
(d) A magazine.

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

13. Where did Breton meet Lamba?
(a) Rome.
(b) London.
(c) Venice.
(d) Paris.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. When was The Surrealist Manifesto released?

4. Who wrote Mad Love?

5. What book's last line stated, "beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all"?

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