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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first object found by Breton and his friend in the flea market in Section 3?
(a) A doll.
(b) A spoon.
(c) A puppet.
(d) A mask.

2. What kind of brooch was the waitress in the diner wearing, as described by Breton in Section 1?
(a) Diamond.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Crystal.
(d) Moonstone.

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

4. What, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which concentrate on the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex?
(a) Neurotisicm.
(b) Venus complex.
(c) Oedipal complex.
(d) Aphrodite complex.

5. What is the second of the two essential questions posed by Breton in Section 2?
(a) "To what extent did this encounter seem to you, and, does it seem to you now, to be fortuitous or foreordained?"
(b) "What do you want the most out of life?"
(c) "What do you consider the essential encounter of your life?"
(d) "What is the meaning of life?"

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Mad Love?

2. In the end of Section 4, Breton sat in a restaurant with Paul Eluard and who?

3. Breton claimed in Section 3 that the found object acted as a _____ for Giacometti.

4. In reviewing his poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, "Today I am unhesitatingly convinced of its profound ____."

5. What season was it that Breton went to the flea market with his friend in Section 3?

(see the answer key)

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