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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the state of being mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented?
(a) Desirious.
(b) External.
(c) Mad.
(d) Bothered.

2. What did Breton define as "the form making manifest the exterior necessity which traces its path in the human unconscious"?
(a) Logic.
(b) Religion.
(c) Chance.
(d) Beauty.

3. The Hegelian dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and what?
(a) Synthesis.
(b) Finale.
(c) Thesis.
(d) Conclusion.

4. What book's last line stated, "beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all"?
(a) Un Cadavre.
(b) Ralentir travaux.
(c) La Revolver à cheveux blancs.
(d) Nadja.

5. Whose photography is featured throughout Mad Love?
(a) Gustav Klimt's.
(b) Ansel Adam's.
(c) Pablo Picasso's.
(d) Man Ray's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mad Love was written as a continuation of what previous work which explored a relationship with a woman who later turned out to be mentally unstable?

2. While the responses of the survey from Section 2 were largely insufficient, there was enough interesting material there that Breton felt what?

3. What refers to the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed?

4. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?

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

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