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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Breton refer to as "a splendid fourteenth-century French town today abandoned to gypsies"?
(a) ÃŽle Saint-Louis.
(b) Villeneuve-les-Avignon.
(c) Bois de Boulogne.
(d) Tour Saint-Jacques.

3. What term means an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Juxtaposition.

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

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

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

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

8. Where did Breton go to the top of a volcano in Section 5?
(a) Lanzarote.
(b) La Palma.
(c) Gran Canaria.
(d) Tenerife.

9. When was L'Age d'or released?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1925..

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

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) Underappreciation.
(c) Overdetermination.
(d) Overstimulation.

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

14. In describing Lamba, Breton wrote, "This young woman who just entered appeared to be swathed in mist - clothed in" what?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) Fur.
(c) Fire.
(d) Ice.

15. Brittany is located where in France?
(a) Southeast.
(b) Southwest.
(c) Northwest.
(d) Northeast.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his descriptions of Lamba, where did Breton write of "a tiny, unforgettable fern climbing the inside wall of an ancient well, the deepest, most somber, and most extensive of all those that I have ever leaned over"?

2. In what year was "Sunflower" written?

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

4. Who painted The House of the Hanged Man?

5. Breton remarked in Section 4 that he had retained a copy of "Sunflower" for over how long?

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