1. Breton announces in Section 2 that one of the purposes of Mad Love will be to explore _____ encounter with chance.
(a) His wife's.
(b) His own.
(c) His son's.
(d) His daughter's

2. Section 3 begins by invoking one of the cornerstones of the avant-garde, referred to as what?
(a) The different.
(b) The obscure.
(c) The rebellious.
(d) The new.

3. When was The Communist Manifesto produced?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1795.

4. When was the second postscript of Section 3 written?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1944.

5. Who was the author of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Friedrich Engels.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. Who published Illuminations in 1874?

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

4. Breton recalls a trip to the flea market in what year, in Section 3?

5. With whom did Breton recount a conversation in the first postscript of Section 3?

(see the answer key)

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