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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 trees.
(b) Dream fantasy.
(c) Dream fruits.
(d) Mad love.

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

3. While Section 5 ends by extolling love and passion, Section 6 emphasizes what?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Evil.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Discord.

4. In what year was Salvador Dali born?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1908.

5. "Sunflower" is an example of what type of poetry?
(a) Automatic.
(b) Stream-of-consciousness.
(c) Structured.
(d) Lyrical.

6. Who painted The House of the Hanged Man?
(a) Charles Baudelaire.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Salvador Dali.
(d) Paul Cezanne.

7. What is the narrative point of view Breton used in describing his trip to Brittany, in Section 6?
(a) Second person plural.
(b) First person plural.
(c) Third person singular.
(d) First person singular.

8. When was the oldest known temple of Venus dedicated?
(a) 293 BC.
(b) 390 BC.
(c) 200 BC.
(d) 123 BC.

9. In reviewing his poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, "Today I am unhesitatingly convinced of its profound ____."
(a) Success.
(b) Failure.
(c) Importance.
(d) Immediacy.

10. The film L'Age d'or was controversial because it was considered an attack on what?
(a) World War I.
(b) Western Civilization.
(c) The Catholic Church.
(d) The Anglican Church.

11. Who summarized his approach in the first line of chapter one of The Communist Manifesto: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles"?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Friedrich Engels.

12. What did Breton note about the stories of Venus in Section 6?
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Abandonment.
(c) Murder.
(d) Passion.

13. In what year was "Sunflower" written?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1923.

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

15. Who was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite?
(a) Aeneas.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) Homer.
(d) Cupid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Brittany is located where in France?

2. When was Alice in Wonderland published?

3. The island volcano that Breton went to in Section 5 was a part of what body of islands?

4. What term means an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast?

5. Breton remarked in Section 4 that he had retained a copy of "Sunflower" for over how long?

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