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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. On what date did Breton recount going to a restaurant, in Section 1?
(a) January 1.
(b) April 12.
(c) May 16.
(d) April 20.

2. What, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which concentrate on the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex?
(a) Oedipal complex.
(b) Venus complex.
(c) Neurotisicm.
(d) Aphrodite complex.

3. What did Breton recall an early definition of as "big spoons, enormous bitter-apples, and chandeliers of soap bubbles"?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Dadaism.
(c) Automatism.
(d) Stream-of-consciousness.

4. Breton argues that "convulsive beauty" must be seen in terms of the object in motion, and how?
(a) In space.
(b) In repose.
(c) In existence.
(d) In the mind.

5. Surrealist theory argues that what are important for the shock and surprise they elicit?
(a) Metaphors.
(b) Themes.
(c) Symbols.
(d) Juxtapositions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Andre Breton's daughter, to whom much of Mad Love is dedicated?

2. Where did Breton meet Lamba?

3. What did Breton define as "the form making manifest the exterior necessity which traces its path in the human unconscious"?

4. Mad Love was written as a continuation of what previous work which explored a relationship with a woman who later turned out to be mentally unstable?

5. What represents that organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the dishwasher call out in the diner, in Section 1? Why did Breton point to this?

2. What did Breton write of "chance" in surrealist theory in Section 1?

3. What was the first object found by Breton and Giacometti in Section 3?

4. What did Breton note about Giacometti's sculpture in Section 3?

5. How did Breton define "chance" in Section 2?

6. What did Breton write in Section 1 of "the woman to appear"? How did he relate this to the Tarot?

7. What did Breton and Giacometti conclude of the first object in Section 3?

8. What is the subject and focus of Section 2 in Mad Love?

9. Who was Friedrich Engels? How did he influence Breton?

10. How effective was Breton's survey in Section 2? What did he conclude?

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