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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The only works published of Comte de Lautréamont include Les Chants de Maldoror and what?
(a) Sunflower.
(b) Poésies.
(c) Mad Love.
(d) L'amour fou.

2. What season was it that Breton went to the flea market with his friend in Section 3?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Winter.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

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

4. Who published Illuminations in 1874?
(a) Arthur Rimbaud.
(b) Alfred Jarry.
(c) Jacques Vaché.
(d) Comte de Lautréamont.

5. In his self-reflection, Breton argued, he could point out the most significant and trivial details of his life and link them to the importance of what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Love.
(c) Fate.
(d) Chance.

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

7. Whose photography is featured throughout Mad Love?
(a) Ansel Adam's.
(b) Pablo Picasso's.
(c) Gustav Klimt's.
(d) Man Ray's.

8. 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) Charles Baudelaire.
(c) Antonin Artaud.
(d) Andre Breton.

9. What is the name of Andre Breton's daughter, to whom much of Mad Love is dedicated?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Aube.
(c) Marie.
(d) Augustine.

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

11. Breton recalls a trip to the flea market in what year, in Section 3?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1934.

12. What refers to everyday items that can be transformed into art objects or reinterpreted as objects outside their intended utilitarian purpose?
(a) Creative items.
(b) Catalyst items.
(c) Art items.
(d) Found items.

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

14. What term refers to a violent agitation or disturbance; commotion?
(a) Convulsion.
(b) Expulsion.
(c) Reaction.
(d) Explosion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?

2. Who wrote "Annabel Lee"?

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

4. Who wrote The Poverty of Philosophy?

5. Breton announces in Section 2 that one of the purposes of Mad Love will be to explore _____ encounter with chance.

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