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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Section 2, Breton sought to answer how one memory might stand out as being a "sign of the spontaneous, the indeterminate, the unforeseeable or even the _____."
(a) Undoable.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Unlikely.
(d) Unattainable.

3. Breton and his friend, in Section 3, associated the mask's original purpose as being what?
(a) Russian sabre mask.
(b) French sabre mask.
(c) German sabre mask.
(d) British sabre mask.

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

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) Thin blade.
(b) Thin paper.
(c) Gun.
(d) Poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Surrealist theory argues that what are important for the shock and surprise they elicit?

2. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?

3. What did Breton note was "lacking" in Giacometti's sculpture?

4. What fragmented phrase had Breton thought of months earlier, which resurfaced after the flea market in Section 3?

5. 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?

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