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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) 1934.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1940.
2. In his self-reflection, Breton argued, he could point out the most significant and trivial details of his life and link them to the importance of what?
(a) Fate.
(b) Desire.
(c) Chance.
(d) Love.
3. What did Breton define as "the form making manifest the exterior necessity which traces its path in the human unconscious"?
(a) Religion.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Logic.
(d) Chance.
4. How many of the questionnaires sent out were returned with responses in Section 2?
(a) None of them.
(b) Almost half.
(c) Three quarters.
(d) All of them.
5. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?
(a) Charles Baudelaire's.
(b) Andre Breton's.
(c) Marquis de Sade's.
(d) Antonin Artaud's.
Short Answer Questions
1. What German social scientist, author, political theorist and philosopher co-founded communist theory, alongside Karl Marx?
2. What French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, was best known for his work, Ubu Roi?
3. Who published Civilization and Its Discontents?
4. What story did the spoon from the flea market evoke for Breton?
5. Breton argues that "convulsive beauty" must be seen in terms of the object in motion, and how?
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 lines of Lautremont's did Breton quote in Section 1? Why?
3. What metaphor did Breton use in defining "convulsive beauty" in Section 1?
4. What questions did Breton pose in Section 2? Where were they published?
5. What was Breton's conclusion of the purpose of the objects in Section 3?
6. How did Breton define "chance" in Section 2?
7. What is the subject and focus of Section 2 in Mad Love?
8. What did Breton write of juxtaposition in the found object in Section 3?
9. What story of a diner did Breton recount in Section 1? What descriptions did he use?
10. What did Breton and Giacometti conclude of the first object in Section 3?
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