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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In its ability to foresee his relationship with Lamba, Breton referred to the poem "Sunflower" as a poem of what?
(a) God.
(b) Prophecy.
(c) Fate.
(d) Occult.

2. Paul Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and what early 20th century's new line of artistic inquiry?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Dadaism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Cubism.

3. What was Jacqueline Lamba's occupation?
(a) Sculptor.
(b) Vocalist.
(c) Painter.
(d) Pianist.

4. Breton described feeling an overwhelming need for what, while in Brittany in Section 6?
(a) Reinforcement.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Love.
(d) Affection.

5. When was Pierre Reverdy born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1915.

6. Who wrote the Aeneid?
(a) Homer.
(b) Plato.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Aristophanes.

7. What did Breton refer to the fauna as on his trip to the volcano in Section 5?
(a) Jurassic.
(b) Wise.
(c) Delicate.
(d) Enormous.

8. Where did Breton and Lamba pass after the Tour Saint-Jacques?
(a) Quai aux Fleurs.
(b) ÃŽle Saint-Louis.
(c) Bois de Boulogne.
(d) Villeneuve-les-Avignon.

9. Who was Jacqueline Lamba's second husband?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Andrew Lloyd Webber.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) David Hare.

10. What term refers to that of high moral, aesthetic, intellectual, or spiritual value; noble; exalted?
(a) Holy.
(b) Supreme.
(c) Godly.
(d) Sublime.

11. Where was Pierre Reverdy born?
(a) Bois de Boulogne, France.
(b) Narbonne, France.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Sicily, Italy.

12. Who wrote the film, L'Age d'or?
(a) Salvador Dali.
(b) Paul Cezanne.
(c) Andre Breton.
(d) Luis Bunuel.

13. Who was presumably with Breton in Brittany in Section 6?
(a) Dali.
(b) Marie.
(c) Cezanne.
(d) Lamba.

14. Who wrote Alice in Wonderland?
(a) F. Walter Scott.
(b) Richard Burns.
(c) Andre Breton.
(d) Lewis Carroll.

15. Breton wrote, "What is required most earnestly to keep up this sort of life loses all its value at the passage of the great _____."
(a) Dream fantasy.
(b) Dream trees.
(c) Mad love.
(d) Dream fruits.

Short Answer Questions

1. It was suggested to Breton that the house in Section 6 was where what had occurred?

2. Breton refers to the myth of Venus and the what?

3. Breton regretted, in Section 4, that he no longer had the _____ of "Sunflower."

4. What did Breton refer to as "a splendid fourteenth-century French town today abandoned to gypsies"?

5. In Section 5, Breton compared passing through the rough landscape to the volcano with passing through what?

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