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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 book's last line stated, "beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all"?
(a) Un Cadavre.
(b) Nadja.
(c) Ralentir travaux.
(d) La Revolver à cheveux blancs.

2. The only works published of Comte de Lautréamont include Les Chants de Maldoror and what?
(a) L'amour fou.
(b) Poésies.
(c) Sunflower.
(d) Mad Love.

3. What, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which concentrate on the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex?
(a) Neurotisicm.
(b) Oedipal complex.
(c) Aphrodite complex.
(d) Venus complex.

4. The Hegelian dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and what?
(a) Conclusion.
(b) Thesis.
(c) Synthesis.
(d) Finale.

5. Who wrote Mad Love?
(a) Luis Bunuel.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Salvador Dali.
(d) Andre Breton.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first postscript of Section 3 written?

2. Breton and his friend, in Section 3, associated the mask's original purpose as being what?

3. Who published Illuminations in 1874?

4. What was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel?

5. Breton recalls a trip to the flea market in what year, in Section 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who was Man Ray? What contributions did he lend to Mad Love?

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

9. What is the subject and focus of Section 2 in Mad Love?

10. What was the first object found by Breton and Giacometti in Section 3?

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