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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 is the name of the author who wrote Madame Bovery?

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

3. What statue does Breton say has always fascinated him?

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

5. What does Breton say he tries to use his experience to examine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What puzzles Breton about the Les Detraquees?

2. What does Breton recall about the film "Grip of the Octopus"?

3. Why does Breton first decide to speak to Nadja?

4. What does Breton comment about his fantasy of meeting a naked woman in the woods?

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

6. How does Breton interpret the plot of Les Detraquees?

7. What is Breton's opinion of work?

8. What does Breton say he wants to find out about himself?

9. Who does Breton become acquainted with Paul Eluard?

10. How does Breton know Philippe Soupault?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Breton and Nadja.

1. What is their relationship to each other?

2. How are their ideas different?

3. How do their differences in opinion prove to be destructive?

Essay Topic 2

What would Nadja say about Breton if the affair was told from her point of view? What information about the affair does Breton hold back and why? Is it possible to be entirely honest about such an event in one's life?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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