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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Section 3, Breton contrasts the sexual instinct with the ____ instinct as he describes how, unbeknown to him, two people had perused the same objects at the flea market, one of whom was a former lover of Breton's.
(a) Nurture.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) Fight-or-flight.

2. With whom does Breton relate a trip to a flea market in Section 3?
(a) Paul Cezanne.
(b) Salvador Dali.
(c) Alberto Giacometti.
(d) Paul Eluard.

3. 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?
(a) Super-ego.
(b) Id.
(c) Self.
(d) Ego.

4. What comprises that organized part of the personality structure that criticizes and prohibits his or her drives, fantasies, feelings, and actions?
(a) Id.
(b) Self.
(c) Ego.
(d) Super-ego.

5. What American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement, was best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Sam Shepherd.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

6. What is the original French title of Mad Love?
(a) L'Immaculée Conception.
(b) L'Amour fou.
(c) L'Air de l'eau.
(d) Manifeste du surréalisme.

7. What term refers to a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment?
(a) Logic.
(b) Chance.
(c) Desire.
(d) Objective.

8. 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?
(a) Antonin Artaud.
(b) Jacques Vaché.
(c) Alfred Jarry.
(d) Arthur Rimbaud.

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

10. What term refers to a violent agitation or disturbance; commotion?
(a) Expulsion.
(b) Reaction.
(c) Explosion.
(d) Convulsion.

11. What term relates to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies?
(a) Alchemy.
(b) Tarot.
(c) Occult.
(d) Heathenism.

12. What season was it that Breton went to the flea market with his friend in Section 3?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

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

14. Breton distinguishes in Section 1 between an object which is wished for and an object which is what?
(a) Dreamed of.
(b) Prayed for.
(c) Bought.
(d) Found.

15. Breton stated, in the first postscript of Section 3, that he had repressed the connection between the spoon and the what?
(a) Handle.
(b) Story.
(c) Shoe.
(d) Phallus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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."

3. What is the first of the questions posed by Breton in Section 2?

4. The only works published of Comte de Lautréamont include Les Chants de Maldoror and what?

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

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