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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 5, Breton made the connection between lovers as linked and lacy grass and as what in turn?
(a) Ship-rigging.
(b) Laundry.
(c) Kittens and puppies.
(d) Trees and flowers.

2. What did Breton note about the stories of Venus in Section 6?
(a) Murder.
(b) Cruelty.
(c) Abandonment.
(d) Passion.

3. Who was Jacqueline Lamba's second husband?
(a) Andrew Lloyd Webber.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) David Hare.

4. Who wrote the Aeneid?
(a) Homer.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Virgil.

5. When was Jacqueline Lamba born?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1905.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book states that once private property is abolished, "we can reasonably affirm that far from disappearing, monogamy will be realized for the first time'"?

2. In what year did Breton describe a trip to Brittany, in Section 6?

3. In reviewing his poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, "Today I am unhesitatingly convinced of its profound ____."

4. What term means an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast?

5. What refers to the practice of marriage with only one person at a time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Breton associate with his sense of discord on his trip in Section 6?

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

3. What did Breton write regarding The Origins of Family in Section 5?

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

5. What is the subject and focus of Section 4? How does this section contrast from the previous one?

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

7. What metaphors did Breton use in describing the flora and fauna at the volcano in Section 5?

8. Why did Breton cite Venus mythology in Section 6? What myths did he cite?

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

10. What did Breton write of his own relationship to discord in Section 6?

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