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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the original French title of Mad Love?
(a) L'Air de l'eau.
(b) Manifeste du surréalisme.
(c) L'Immaculée Conception.
(d) L'Amour fou.

2. What year was it that Breton recounted going to a restaurant, in Section 1?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1934.

3. What term refers to a violent agitation or disturbance; commotion?
(a) Explosion.
(b) Reaction.
(c) Expulsion.
(d) Convulsion.

4. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?
(a) Theater.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Dance.
(d) Music.

5. What term relates to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies?
(a) Heathenism.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Occult.
(d) Tarot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book's last line stated, "beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all"?

2. What French poet produced his best known works while still in his late teens and gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21?

3. What is the title of the photograph in Section 1 which accompanies Breton's discussion of Tarot?

4. What term refers to the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled?

5. The only works published of Comte de Lautréamont include Les Chants de Maldoror and what?

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