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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to everyday items that can be transformed into art objects or reinterpreted as objects outside their intended utilitarian purpose?
(a) Catalyst items.
(b) Creative items.
(c) Art items.
(d) Found items.

2. Breton wrote in Section 3 that the meaning of the slipper in Cinderella is that of "lost object" and that to Breton it symbolized what?
(a) An unknown woman.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His daughter.

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

4. What French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist helped initiate the periodical Littérature?
(a) Charles Baudelaire.
(b) Philippe Soupault.
(c) Pierre Reverdy.
(d) Antonin Artaud.

5. 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) Unattainable.
(b) Undoable.
(c) Unlikely.
(d) Impossible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Alice in Wonderland?

2. What term refers to a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment?

3. Who wrote New Justine, which was lauded by Breton in Section 5?

4. Where was Salvador Dali from?

5. What did Breton refer to as "a splendid fourteenth-century French town today abandoned to gypsies"?

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