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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was presumably with Breton in Brittany in Section 6?
(a) Cezanne.
(b) Marie.
(c) Lamba.
(d) Dali.

3. In Section 5, Breton compared passing through the rough landscape to the volcano with passing through what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Life.
(c) Danger.
(d) Desire.

4. When was Paul Cezanne born?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1839.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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) Sexual advances.
(b) Having children.
(c) Doing housework.
(d) Marriage.

13. 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) Love.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Truth.
(d) Desire.

14. 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 ____."
(a) 1940.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1939.

15. Jacqueline Lamba was which of Andre Breton's wives?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Second.
(c) Third.
(d) First.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book states that once private property is abolished, "we can reasonably affirm that far from disappearing, monogamy will be realized for the first time'"?

2. When was the oldest known temple of Venus dedicated?

3. What did Breton write that he considered "temptation" to be?

4. Venus is associated with what Greek goddess?

5. In what month did Breton describe visiting Brittany, in Section 6?

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