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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nadja, pg. 27 to 37.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has the woman who knocks on Breton's hotel room door come to say?
(a) She has come to recommend someone to him.
(b) She has come to warn him about the police.
(c) She has come to ask him to pay his bill.
(d) She has come to ask him for a drink.

2. What did one author to another that he should change about his heroine?
(a) Her nose.
(b) Her name.
(c) Her hair.
(d) Her gender.

3. What period does Breton say Desnos is having when he visits him?
(a) His yellow period.
(b) His nap period.
(c) His crazy period.
(d) His tired period.

4. Why does Breton say he doesn't like Comte de Lautréamont's poetry?
(a) It says nothing about life.
(b) He uses only simple words.
(c) It is nothing but style.
(d) He hides behind his work.

5. Which painter's paintings does Breton say have magnificent light?
(a) Courbet.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Chirico.
(d) Van Gogh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the film Breton mentions in this section?

2. What does Breton say the story about Hugo and the gates make him feel?

3. Who once handed Breton and Eluard to the police?

4. What painter does Breton mention in this section?

5. What does Breton say the author's life is victimized by?

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