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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 does Paul Eluard like to write?

2. What was the color of the woman's glove?

3. What does Breton visit in Saint-Ouen?

4. What does Breton say Desnos is able to see?

5. What does the woman at the market give Breton?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Breton feel about film-going?

2. How does Breton plan to approach the narrative?

3. Why does Breton say he admires Flaubert?

4. Why does Breton feel close to Huysmans?

5. How do Rimbaud's poems help Breton to meet a girl?

6. Describe Breton's dream in this section.

7. What does Breton learn about the Maison Rogue sign?

8. What does Breton envy about Desnos?

9. What does Breton think Hugo's ritual says about him as a person?

10. What happened at Saint-Ouen market?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What evidence is there to suggest that Nadja is not of sound mind? Is Breton right when he says that Nadja would not have been hospitalized if she had more money? What does this comment say about French society at that time? How will the sanitarium affect Nadja?

Essay Topic 2

How does Breton's affair affect his life and thoughts about life? Is the way Nadja lives life close to Breton's own surrealist philosophies? How would their relationship have developed if they had continued seeing each other?

Essay Topic 3

How does Nadja maintain her power over men? How does Breton cope with the power hold over him? What suggestions are there that Breton holds a similar power over her?

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