1. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?
(a) "Is there a God?"
(b) "What do you consider the essential encounter of your life?"
(c) "To what extent did this encounter seem to you, and, does it seem to you now, to be fortuitous or foreordained?"
(d) "What is the meaning of life?"

2. Brittany is located where in France?
(a) Southeast.
(b) Northeast.
(c) Southwest.
(d) Northwest.

3. What did Breton suggest had had a major influence on his love life in Section 6?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Venus.
(c) God.
(d) Discord.

4. In what year did Breton describe a trip to Brittany, in Section 6?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1936.

5. Who published Civilization and Its Discontents?
(a) Friedrich Engels.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Carl Jung.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which component of Freud's psychological model acts according to the "pleasure principle", seeking to avoid pain or displeasure aroused by increases in instinctual tension?

2. When was Pierre Reverdy born?

3. The killer in Section 6 claimed in court that he had been driven to exasperation in part due to his wife's long-standing refusal of what?

4. Who was the author of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State?

5. What did Breton refer to as "a splendid fourteenth-century French town today abandoned to gypsies"?

(see the answer key)

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