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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 Nadja notice about Breton when they meet at the beginning of this section?

2. What is the name of Breton's psychic?

3. Why does Breton take issue with Nadja's mother watching people on the Metro?

4. What does the woman's name mean in Russian?

5. What has a doctor advised Nadja to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Nadja and Breton's meeting on October 11.

2. Why does Breton cry in this section?

3. How does Breton think Nadja will cope in the sanitarium?

4. Why does Breton's artist friend refuse to paint Nadja?

5. Why does Nadja think people look at them?

6. Why does Breton admire Nadja ability to entertain herself with stories?

7. How does Nadja her power over men can help Breton?

8. Describe the incident with the red window?

9. Describe three drawings Nadja draws as a symbol of her relationship with Breton.

10. How does Nadja act when she feels unwell?

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

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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