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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference?
(a) Fate.
(b) Chance.
(c) Structure.
(d) Logic.

3. What Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker created the monument on the grave of Gerda Taro at Père Lachaise Cemetery?
(a) Paul Eluard.
(b) Paul Cezanne.
(c) Roberto Gogol.
(d) Alberto Giacometti.

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

5. What is the second of the two essential questions posed by Breton in Section 2?
(a) "To what extent did this encounter seem to you, and, does it seem to you now, to be fortuitous or foreordained?"
(b) "What do you want the most out of life?"
(c) "What do you consider the essential encounter of your life?"
(d) "What is the meaning of life?"

6. In Section 3, Breton contrasts the sexual instinct with the ____ instinct as he describes how, unbeknown to him, two people had perused the same objects at the flea market, one of whom was a former lover of Breton's.
(a) Fight-or-flight.
(b) Death.
(c) Nurture.
(d) Life.

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

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

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

10. What German social scientist, author, political theorist and philosopher co-founded communist theory, alongside Karl Marx?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Benito Mussolini.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Friedrich Engels.

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

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

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

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

15. When was The Surrealist Manifesto released?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1910.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. In Freud's theory, the ego mediates among the ___, the super-ego and the external world.

5. What represents that organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions?

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