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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the first postscript of Section 3 written?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1950.

3. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?
(a) Sam Beckett's.
(b) Andre Breton's.
(c) Antonin Artaud's.
(d) Paul Eluard's.

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

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

6. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?
(a) Antonin Artaud's.
(b) Andre Breton's.
(c) Marquis de Sade's.
(d) Charles Baudelaire's.

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

8. What term relates to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies?
(a) Heathenism.
(b) Tarot.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Occult.

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

10. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?
(a) Sand.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Building material.
(d) Rock salt.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?

2. 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."

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

4. What did Breton recall an early definition of as "big spoons, enormous bitter-apples, and chandeliers of soap bubbles"?

5. On what date did Breton recount going to a restaurant, in Section 1?

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