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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In the end of Section 4, Breton sat in a restaurant with Paul Eluard and who?
(a) Salvador Dali.
(b) Aube.
(c) Paul Cezanne.
(d) René Char.

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

5. New Justine was set against the backdrop of what location?
(a) Mt. Ranier.
(b) Mt. McKinley.
(c) Mt. Etna.
(d) The Swiss Alps.

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

7. When was Alice in Wonderland published?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1888.

8. What did Breton suggest had had a major influence on his love life in Section 6?
(a) Discord.
(b) Harmony.
(c) God.
(d) Venus.

9. In what month did Breton describe visiting Brittany, in Section 6?
(a) July.
(b) February.
(c) January.
(d) August.

10. The island volcano that Breton went to in Section 5 was a part of what body of islands?
(a) Hawaiian Islands.
(b) Mediterranean Islands.
(c) Virgin Islands.
(d) Spanish Canary Islands.

11. Breton concludes Section 5 wondering if perhaps the connection between the coast, the house, the murder, and his desire for solitude do not constitute an ______ and a deliberate undoing.
(a) Underestimation.
(b) Overstimulation.
(c) Underappreciation.
(d) Overdetermination.

12. 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) Cubism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Dadaism.

13. The killer in Section 6 claimed in court that he had been driven to exasperation in part due to his wife's long-standing refusal of what?
(a) Having children.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Doing housework.
(d) Sexual advances.

14. In Section 4, Breton cites one of his poems where the tower sways like what?
(a) A tree.
(b) A blade of grass.
(c) A bridge.
(d) A sunflower.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Aeneid?

2. Who wrote the film, L'Age d'or?

3. Regarding the poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, ""I say that there isn't anything in this poem of 1923 that did not announce the most important thing to happen to me in ____."

4. In Section 5, Breton described some of the automatic writing games, including the repetition of some "childhood mirages," most notably the phrases "tree for bread" and "tree for" what?

5. What poem of Baudelaire's is discussed in Section 5?

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