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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Surrealist theory argues that what are important for the shock and surprise they elicit?
(a) Metaphors.
(b) Juxtapositions.
(c) Themes.
(d) Symbols.

2. How many of the questionnaires sent out were returned with responses in Section 2?
(a) Almost half.
(b) All of them.
(c) None of them.
(d) Three quarters.

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) Paul Eluard's.
(c) Andre Breton's.
(d) Antonin Artaud's.

4. Breton argues that "convulsive beauty" must be seen in terms of the object in motion, and how?
(a) In existence.
(b) In space.
(c) In the mind.
(d) In repose.

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

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. What refers to the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference?

3. What art form does Breton invoke in the beginning of Mad Love?

4. What French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, was best known for his work, Ubu Roi?

5. In his self-reflection, Breton argued, he could point out the most significant and trivial details of his life and link them to the importance of what?

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