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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What astrological sign was Andre Breton?
(a) Pisces.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Virgo.
(d) Capricorn.

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

3. What did Breton see as a monument to things that are hidden, in Section 4?
(a) Villeneuve-les-Avignon.
(b) Bois de Boulogne.
(c) Tour Saint-Jacques.
(d) ÃŽle Saint-Louis.

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

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

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

7. 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) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Friedrich Engels.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Antonin Artaud.

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

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

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

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

12. Venus is associated with what Greek goddess?
(a) Poiseidon.
(b) Hera.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Eros.

13. It was suggested to Breton that the house in Section 6 was where what had occurred?
(a) His dream.
(b) A murder.
(c) A hurricane.
(d) A vision.

14. Where was Salvador Dali from?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

15. Breton described feeling an overwhelming need for what, while in Brittany in Section 6?
(a) Solitude.
(b) Affection.
(c) Love.
(d) Reinforcement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Breton and Lamba pass after the Tour Saint-Jacques?

2. The island volcano that Breton went to in Section 5 was a part of what body of islands?

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

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

5. Who directed the film, L'Age d'or?

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