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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who first stated and established the Hegelian dialectic?
(a) Comte de Lautréamont.
(b) Arthur Rimbaud.
(c) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(d) Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus.

2. What refers to a pack of cards (most commonly numbering 78), used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games and for divination?
(a) Ouija.
(b) Hora.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Tarot.

3. What French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, was best known for his work, Ubu Roi?
(a) Antonin Artaud.
(b) Francois Depardieux.
(c) Alfred Jarry.
(d) Jacques Vaché.

4. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?
(a) Sand.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Building material.
(d) Rock salt.

5. Breton writes in Section 1, "In order to have a woman appear, I have seen myself opening a door, shutting it, opening it again -- when I had noticed that it was not enough to slip a ____ into a book chosen at random."
(a) Gun.
(b) Thin blade.
(c) Thin paper.
(d) Poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose photography is featured throughout Mad Love?

2. The Hegelian dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and what?

3. 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?

4. What is the original French title of Mad Love?

5. What American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement, was best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre?

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