View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What French Poet's last major work, Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ('A roll of the dice will never abolish chance'), was published in 1897?

2. 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?

3. The only works published of Comte de Lautréamont include Les Chants de Maldoror and what?

4. What was on the handle of the spoon found at the flea market in Section 3?

5. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Breton's conclusion of the purpose of the objects in Section 3?

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

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

5. What did Breton note about Giacometti's sculpture in Section 3?

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

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

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

9. What did Breton write of "chance" in surrealist theory in Section 1?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the life, career, and work of Man Ray. What relationship did Ray have with Breton? What involvement did Ray have within the Surrealist Movement?

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

Discuss the associations of the Surrealist Movement with "chance" and the occult. How did Breton define "chance"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 934 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample