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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 the woman's name mean in Russian?

2. What does Breton ask his artist friend to do for him?

3. Why does Nadja say she liked going out with Dear Friend?

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

5. What does Breton say the last pages of the book are his chance to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the incident with the red window?

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

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

4. What is Breton's opinion on beauty?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Nadja anger Breton in this section?

10. What frightens Nadja on the first train?

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

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 3

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?

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