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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. Breton wrote, "What is required most earnestly to keep up this sort of life loses all its value at the passage of the great _____."
(a) Dream trees.
(b) Dream fruits.
(c) Dream fantasy.
(d) Mad love.

2. In its ability to foresee his relationship with Lamba, Breton referred to the poem "Sunflower" as a poem of what?
(a) Prophecy.
(b) Fate.
(c) Occult.
(d) God.

3. The killer in Section 6 claimed in court that he had been driven to exasperation in part due to his wife's long-standing refusal of what?
(a) Sexual advances.
(b) Doing housework.
(c) Having children.
(d) Marriage.

4. Breton regretted, in Section 4, that he no longer had the _____ of "Sunflower."
(a) Original manuscript.
(b) Last adaptation.
(c) Second version.
(d) Third version.

5. Who was presumably with Breton in Brittany in Section 6?
(a) Marie.
(b) Cezanne.
(c) Dali.
(d) Lamba.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the film, L'Age d'or?

2. What did Breton note about the stories of Venus in Section 6?

3. Brittany is located where in France?

4. What is the narrative point of view Breton used in describing his trip to Brittany, in Section 6?

5. Where did Breton and Lamba pass after the Tour Saint-Jacques?

Short Essay Questions

1. What automatic writing games did Breton describe in Section 5?

2. What descriptions of Paris did Breton relate in Section 4? What monument did he take note of?

3. Why did Breton not name his company on his trip in Section 6?

4. What did Breton feel the edits had done to the poem "Sunflower"?

5. What trip did Breton recount in Section 6? Where did he go, and when?

6. What did Breton transition to following his descriptions of the volcano in Section 5?

7. What is the subject and focus of Section 6? How does it relate to Section 6?

8. What imagery did Breton use in Section 5? What is the subject of this section?

9. What did Breton conclude of his trip in Section 6?

10. What did Breton write of prophecy in his poem "Sunflower" in Section 4? How did he further illustrate this point?

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