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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "Annabel Lee"?
(a) Alfred Jarry.
(b) Comte de Lautréamont.
(c) Arthur Rimbaud.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

2. In its ability to foresee his relationship with Lamba, Breton referred to the poem "Sunflower" as a poem of what?
(a) Occult.
(b) God.
(c) Fate.
(d) Prophecy.

3. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?
(a) Sam Beckett's.
(b) Andre Breton's.
(c) Antonin Artaud's.
(d) Paul Eluard's.

4. What was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel?
(a) Andre Breton.
(b) Antonin Artaud.
(c) Sam Beckett.
(d) Paul Eluard.

5. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?
(a) "Myself."
(b) "Myself and her."
(c) "Tarot and love."
(d) "Cards and wine."

Short Answer Questions

1. What Austrian neurologist founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry?

2. What term relates to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies?

3. 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?

4. Breton stated, in the first postscript of Section 3, that he had repressed the connection between the spoon and the what?

5. Where was Pierre Reverdy born?

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