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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was the first postscript of Section 3 written?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1934.
2. What Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker created the monument on the grave of Gerda Taro at Père Lachaise Cemetery?
(a) Paul Cezanne.
(b) Alberto Giacometti.
(c) Roberto Gogol.
(d) Paul Eluard.
3. On what date did Breton recount going to a restaurant, in Section 1?
(a) April 12.
(b) May 16.
(c) April 20.
(d) January 1.
4. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?
(a) Sam Beckett's.
(b) Andre Breton's.
(c) Paul Eluard's.
(d) Antonin Artaud's.
5. What book's last line stated, "beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all"?
(a) La Revolver à cheveux blancs.
(b) Nadja.
(c) Un Cadavre.
(d) Ralentir travaux.
Short Answer Questions
1. What French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, was best known for his work, Ubu Roi?
2. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?
3. Breton distinguishes in Section 1 between an object which is wished for and an object which is what?
4. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?
5. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the subject and focus of Mad Love? What previous work of Andre Breton's did it expand upon?
2. What did Breton write in Section 1 of "the woman to appear"? How did he relate this to the Tarot?
3. What was Breton's conclusion of the purpose of the objects in Section 3?
4. What story of a diner did Breton recount in Section 1? What descriptions did he use?
5. How effective was Breton's survey in Section 2? What did he conclude?
6. What did Breton write in the postscripts for Section 3?
7. What did Breton write of juxtaposition in the found object in Section 3?
8. What lines of Lautremont's did Breton quote in Section 1? Why?
9. What questions did Breton pose in Section 2? Where were they published?
10. What was the first object found by Breton and Giacometti in Section 3?
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