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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nadja, pp. 37 to 51.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Breton say the story about Hugo and the gates make him feel?
(a) A sense of proportion.
(b) A sense of dread.
(c) A sense of age.
(d) A sense of reality.

2. Which artist does Breton say he has much in common with?
(a) Hugo.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Huysmans.

3. Who does Breton say he feels closer to than any of his friends?
(a) Huysmans.
(b) Flaubert.
(c) Francis Bacon.
(d) Van Gogh.

4. What does Breton say he strives to discover?
(a) His intellectual capabilities.
(b) His relation to other men.
(c) His real parents.
(d) The love of his life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which painter's paintings does Breton say have magnificent light?

2. How does Breton describe the complexion of the naked woman?

3. Who does the young man mistake Breton?

4. What has the woman who knocks on Breton's hotel room door come to say?

5. What kind of authors does Breton say he despises?

(see the answer key)

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