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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 story did the spoon from the flea market evoke for Breton?
(a) Sleeping Beauty.
(b) Rapunzel.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Hansel and Gretel.

2. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?
(a) Antonin Artaud's.
(b) Andre Breton's.
(c) Sam Beckett's.
(d) Paul Eluard's.

3. What is the original French title of Mad Love?
(a) L'Air de l'eau.
(b) L'Amour fou.
(c) Manifeste du surréalisme.
(d) L'Immaculée Conception.

4. What term relates to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies?
(a) Alchemy.
(b) Occult.
(c) Heathenism.
(d) Tarot.

5. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?
(a) "To what extent did this encounter seem to you, and, does it seem to you now, to be fortuitous or foreordained?"
(b) "Is there a God?"
(c) "What do you consider the essential encounter of your life?"
(d) "What is the meaning of life?"

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Poverty of Philosophy?

2. What was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, an Uruguayan-born French poet?

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

4. In Section 2, Breton sought to answer how one memory might stand out as being a "sign of the spontaneous, the indeterminate, the unforeseeable or even the _____."

5. What term refers to the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled?

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 note about Giacometti's sculpture in Section 3?

3. What questions did Breton pose in Section 2? Where were they published?

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

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

6. What artists were discussed by Breton in Section 1?

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

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

9. What did Breton remark about the responses received from the survey in Section 2?

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

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