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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. Who does the woman say she was in love but recently left?

2. What does Breton say Nadja is unable to hold onto?

3. What does Nadja call the man she met in Paris who was in his seventies?

4. What does the artist think Nadja will do if he meets her?

5. What does the woman say she is having problems with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the awkward meeting Breton and Nadja have on October the 6th.

2. Why does Breton feel he has stopped understanding Nadja?

3. How does Nadja anger Breton in this section?

4. Why does Breton disagree with what Nadja's mother does in her spare time?

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

6. What is Breton's opinion of sanitariums?

7. What does Nadja tell Breton about her two friends?

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

9. What problem does Nadja say she once had with drugs?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do Nadja's previous relationships with men say about her as a person? Why do her stories about what happened in her past cause Breton to distance himself from her?

Essay Topic 2

What are the elements of a surrealist work? In what way is the novel a surrealist work?

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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