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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Breton write that he considered "temptation" to be?
(a) Deadly.
(b) Divine.
(c) Evil.
(d) Dangerous.

2. 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.

3. What refers to the practice of marriage with only one person at a time?
(a) Bigamy.
(b) Monogamy.
(c) Unigamy.
(d) Polygamy.

4. What happened later the same evening that Breton wrote of having met Lamba?
(a) They never spoke.
(b) They were married.
(c) They had their first rendevous.
(d) They had an argument.

5. Breton remarked in Section 4 that he had retained a copy of "Sunflower" for over how long?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 25 years.

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

7. 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) Mad love.
(c) Dream trees.
(d) Dream fruits.

8. Breton refers to the myth of Venus and the what?
(a) Golden Hind.
(b) Golden Ring.
(c) Golden Apple.
(d) Golden Harp.

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

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

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

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

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

14. According to Breton, "____, the only motive of the world, ____, the only rigor humans must be acquainted with, where could I better situated to adore it than on the inside of the cloud?
(a) Truth.
(b) Desire.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Alice in Wonderland published?

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?

3. Who wrote the Aeneid?

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

5. When did Jacqueline Lamba die?

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