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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. 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 _____."
(a) Impossible.
(b) Unlikely.
(c) Unattainable.
(d) Undoable.

2. With whom did Breton recount a conversation in the first postscript of Section 3?
(a) Giacometti.
(b) Aube.
(c) Eluard.
(d) Cezanne.

3. Breton wrote in Section 3 that the meaning of the slipper in Cinderella is that of "lost object" and that to Breton it symbolized what?
(a) His father.
(b) An unknown woman.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His mother.

4. What represents that organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions?
(a) Self.
(b) Ego.
(c) Super-ego.
(d) Id.

5. What refers to a pack of cards (most commonly numbering 78), used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games and for divination?
(a) Tarot.
(b) Ouija.
(c) Hora.
(d) Mysticism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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. On what date did Breton recount going to a restaurant, in Section 1?

5. What term refers to a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story of a diner did Breton recount in Section 1? What descriptions did he use?

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

3. What lines of Lautremont's did Breton quote in Section 1? Why?

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

5. What art form does Breton open Mad Love discussing? Why?

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

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

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

9. What did Breton conclude would be his approach in Mad Love in Section 2?

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

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