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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. When did Jacqueline Lamba die?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1980.

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

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

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

10. What poem of Baudelaire's is discussed in Section 5?
(a) "Ending."
(b) "Poesies."
(c) "Voyage."
(d) "Opening."

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) Friedrich Engels.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Antonin Artaud.

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

13. In what year did Breton describe a trip to Brittany, in Section 6?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1924.

14. Breton noted in Section 6 that his birthday coincides with the conjunction of Venus with what?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Mars.
(c) Saturn.
(d) The moon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist helped initiate the periodical Littérature?

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

3. What refers to the practice of marriage with only one person at a time?

4. 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 ____."

5. In reviewing his poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, "Today I am unhesitatingly convinced of its profound ____."

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