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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. What was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, an Uruguayan-born French poet?
(a) Comte de Lautréamont.
(b) Arthur Rimbaud.
(c) Jacques Vaché.
(d) Alfred Jarry.

2. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?
(a) Dance.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Theater.
(d) Music.

3. What refers to a mythological monster, half-man and half-bull?
(a) Cyclops.
(b) Minotaur.
(c) Pegasus.
(d) Serotaur.

4. What term refers to a violent agitation or disturbance; commotion?
(a) Reaction.
(b) Expulsion.
(c) Explosion.
(d) Convulsion.

5. Breton and his friend, in Section 3, associated the mask's original purpose as being what?
(a) Russian sabre mask.
(b) British sabre mask.
(c) German sabre mask.
(d) French sabre mask.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comprises that organized part of the personality structure that criticizes and prohibits his or her drives, fantasies, feelings, and actions?

2. When was The Communist Manifesto produced?

3. In Section 3, Breton contrasts the sexual instinct with the ____ instinct as he describes how, unbeknown to him, two people had perused the same objects at the flea market, one of whom was a former lover of Breton's.

4. Breton distinguishes in Section 1 between an object which is wished for and an object which is what?

5. What is the original French title of Mad Love?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Breton write in the postscripts for Section 3?

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

3. What is the subject and focus of Mad Love? What previous work of Andre Breton's did it expand upon?

4. What did the second found object in Section 3 represent for Breton?

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

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

7. What did Breton write of juxtaposition in the found object in Section 3?

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

9. What metaphor did Breton use in defining "convulsive beauty" in Section 1?

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

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