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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker created the monument on the grave of Gerda Taro at Père Lachaise Cemetery?
(a) Paul Cezanne.
(b) Paul Eluard.
(c) Alberto Giacometti.
(d) Roberto Gogol.

2. Where did Breton meet Lamba?
(a) Venice.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Rome.

3. In Freud's theory, the ego mediates among the ___, the super-ego and the external world.
(a) Super-ego.
(b) Ego.
(c) Self.
(d) Id.

4. What German social scientist, author, political theorist and philosopher co-founded communist theory, alongside Karl Marx?
(a) Friedrich Engels.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Benito Mussolini.

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

6. What did Breton recall an early definition of as "big spoons, enormous bitter-apples, and chandeliers of soap bubbles"?
(a) Stream-of-consciousness.
(b) Automatism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Dadaism.

7. 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) Death.
(b) Nurture.
(c) Fight-or-flight.
(d) Life.

8. Who first stated and established the Hegelian dialectic?
(a) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
(b) Arthur Rimbaud.
(c) Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus.
(d) Comte de Lautréamont.

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

10. What story did the spoon from the flea market evoke for Breton?
(a) Cinderella.
(b) Hansel and Gretel.
(c) Rapunzel.
(d) Sleeping Beauty.

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

12. 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) Oedipal complex.
(b) Aphrodite complex.
(c) Neurotisicm.
(d) Venus complex.

13. What was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel?
(a) Sam Beckett.
(b) Andre Breton.
(c) Antonin Artaud.
(d) Paul Eluard.

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

15. What refers to a pack of cards (most commonly numbering 78), used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games and for divination?
(a) Tarot.
(b) Ouija.
(c) Hora.
(d) Mysticism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What refers to everyday items that can be transformed into art objects or reinterpreted as objects outside their intended utilitarian purpose?

3. Breton uses a metaphor in Section 1 comparing great quartz crystals found in grottoes in Europe and the simple crystals found in what?

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

5. 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?

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