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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 comprises that organized part of the personality structure that criticizes and prohibits his or her drives, fantasies, feelings, and actions?
(a) Super-ego.
(b) Ego.
(c) Self.
(d) Id.

2. Where did Breton meet Lamba?
(a) London.
(b) Rome.
(c) Venice.
(d) Paris.

3. What term refers to the state of being mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented?
(a) Bothered.
(b) Desirious.
(c) External.
(d) Mad.

4. What refers to the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed?
(a) Logic.
(b) God.
(c) Religion.
(d) Fate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?

2. What year was it that Breton recounted going to a restaurant, in Section 1?

3. With whom did Breton recount a conversation in the first postscript of Section 3?

4. What French Poet's last major work, Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ('A roll of the dice will never abolish chance'), was published in 1897?

5. What Surrealist journal is cited in Section 2 of Mad Love?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the subject and focus of Section 3? What story did Breton retell in illustrating this subject?

7. What did Breton conclude about the use of public survey in Section 2?

8. What was Breton's conclusion of the purpose of the objects in Section 3?

9. Who was Sigmund Freud? What impact did he have on the Surrealist Movement?

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

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