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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was L'Age d'or released?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1925..
2. In reviewing his poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, "Today I am unhesitatingly convinced of its profound ____."
(a) Importance.
(b) Immediacy.
(c) Failure.
(d) Success.
3. The film L'Age d'or was controversial because it was considered an attack on what?
(a) The Anglican Church.
(b) The Catholic Church.
(c) World War I.
(d) Western Civilization.
4. When was Alice in Wonderland published?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1856.
5. Who wrote the film, L'Age d'or?
(a) Salvador Dali.
(b) Paul Cezanne.
(c) Luis Bunuel.
(d) Andre Breton.
6. Who was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) Aeneas.
(c) Homer.
(d) Cupid.
7. What did Breton write that he considered "temptation" to be?
(a) Evil.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Divine.
(d) Dangerous.
8. When was the oldest known temple of Venus dedicated?
(a) 293 BC.
(b) 390 BC.
(c) 200 BC.
(d) 123 BC.
9. 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 fruits.
(b) Dream trees.
(c) Dream fantasy.
(d) Mad love.
10. In Section 5, Breton compared passing through the rough landscape to the volcano with passing through what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Desire.
(c) Life.
(d) Danger.
11. What happened later the same evening that Breton wrote of having met Lamba?
(a) They were married.
(b) They had an argument.
(c) They never spoke.
(d) They had their first rendevous.
12. The island volcano that Breton went to in Section 5 was a part of what body of islands?
(a) Spanish Canary Islands.
(b) Hawaiian Islands.
(c) Virgin Islands.
(d) Mediterranean Islands.
13. Who painted The House of the Hanged Man?
(a) Charles Baudelaire.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Paul Cezanne.
(d) Salvador Dali.
14. Breton remarked in Section 4 that he had retained a copy of "Sunflower" for over how long?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 10 years.
15. In what year was "Sunflower" written?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1925.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who wrote Alice in Wonderland?
2. New Justine was set against the backdrop of what location?
3. Jacqueline Lamba was which of Andre Breton's wives?
4. In what year did Breton describe a trip to Brittany, in Section 6?
5. What poem of Baudelaire's is discussed in Section 5?
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