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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 was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel?
2. When was the first postscript of Section 3 written?
3. In Section 3, Breton contrasts the sexual instinct with the ____ instinct as he describes how, unbeknown to him, two people had perused the same objects at the flea market, one of whom was a former lover of Breton's.
4. What was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, an Uruguayan-born French poet?
5. Who published Civilization and Its Discontents?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the first object found by Breton and Giacometti in Section 3?
2. Who was Man Ray? What contributions did he lend to Mad Love?
3. What did the dishwasher call out in the diner, in Section 1? Why did Breton point to this?
4. How did Breton go about stating his case on "convulsive beauty" in Section 1?
5. What did the second found object in Section 3 represent for Breton?
6. What did Breton write of "chance" in surrealist theory in Section 1?
7. What is the subject and focus of Section 2 in Mad Love?
8. What lines of Lautremont's did Breton quote in Section 1? Why?
9. What is the subject and focus of Mad Love? What previous work of Andre Breton's did it expand upon?
10. What did Breton and Giacometti conclude of the first object in Section 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the associations of the Surrealist Movement with "chance" and the occult. How did Breton define "chance"?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the two surrealist journals, The Minotaur and Literature. Who originated each, and what impact did they have on the evolution of the Surrealist Movement?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss and describe the works of theater artists Alfred Jarry and Antonin Artaud. What impact did they have on surrealist thought and Andre Breton?
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