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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the original French title of Mad Love?

2. What was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, an Uruguayan-born French poet?

3. The Hegelian dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and what?

4. What Austrian neurologist founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the dishwasher call out in the diner, in Section 1? Why did Breton point to this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did the second found object in Section 3 represent for Breton?

10. Who was Friedrich Engels? How did he influence Breton?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the life and career of Charles Baudelaire. What influence did Baudelaire have on the Surrealist Movement? What impact did he have on other movements in literature?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss and describe the works of theater artists Alfred Jarry and Antonin Artaud. What impact did they have on surrealist thought and Andre Breton?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the narrative style of Mad Love. What different genres does this book incorporate? How is the book structured?

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