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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 falls in the room after the silence?

2. What would Hugo say when him and Juliet would pass the two trees?

3. Which of the following does Breton say we have to find Chirico's views on before we can understand his work?

4. What does Breton describe as a living room at the bottom of the lake?

5. Who does the insect take the place of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Breton remember about the woman who knocks on his door?

2. What connection does Breton make with the wood coal signs he sees?

3. Why does Breton say he goes to the Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle?

4. What happened at Saint-Ouen market?

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

6. Describe the first act of the play Les Detraquees.

7. What does Breton feel about film-going?

8. What does Breton find disturbing about the naked woman he sees in the theater?

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

10. What does Breton think one needs to do to understand an artist's work?

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

Examine Breton's views on the following people. How does he use them to express his own views about life and art?

1. Gustave Flaubert.

2. Victor Hugo.

3. Georgio de Chirico.

4. Joris-Karl Huysmans.

5. Comte de Lautréamont.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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