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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 peddler selling in the bar?

2. What does Breton say he will never stop searching for?

3. What did Nadja's friend suggest she buy with the money he gave her?

4. What is wrong with two of the woman's fingers on both hands?

5. Where did Nadja hide a small bit of cocaine?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nadja act when she feels unwell?

2. Why does Breton send his friend Paul Eluard to Nadja's house?

3. What does Breton learn about Nadja and her relationship with men in this section?

4. Why doesn't Breton want Nadja to read his books?

5. What draws Breton to the fact Nadja has power over men?

6. Why does Nadja think people look at them?

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

8. How did Breton and Nadja almost kill themselves?

9. What does Nadja tell Breton about her previous love affair?

10. What does Breton feel about Nadja during the day on October the 7th?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

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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