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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 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) Ouija.
(b) Tarot.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Hora.

2. 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) Unattainable.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Unlikely.
(d) Undoable.

3. How many of the questionnaires sent out were returned with responses in Section 2?
(a) Three quarters.
(b) Almost half.
(c) All of them.
(d) None of them.

4. Mad Love was written as a continuation of what previous work which explored a relationship with a woman who later turned out to be mentally unstable?
(a) L'Immaculée Conception.
(b) Ralentir travaux.
(c) L'Air de l'eau.
(d) Nadja.

5. What year was it that Breton recounted going to a restaurant, in Section 1?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1925.

Short Answer Questions

1. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?

2. What refers to the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference?

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

4. What German social scientist, author, political theorist and philosopher co-founded communist theory, alongside Karl Marx?

5. What refers to a mythological monster, half-man and half-bull?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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