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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Brittany is located where in France?
(a) Southeast.
(b) Southwest.
(c) Northeast.
(d) Northwest.

2. Who was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) Aeneas.
(c) Cupid.
(d) Homer.

3. Who painted The House of the Hanged Man?
(a) Antonin Artaud.
(b) Charles Baudelaire.
(c) Paul Cezanne.
(d) Salvador Dali.

4. Jacqueline Lamba was which of Andre Breton's wives?
(a) Second.
(b) Fourth.
(c) First.
(d) Third.

5. In reviewing his poem, "Sunflower," Breton wrote, "Today I am unhesitatingly convinced of its profound ____."
(a) Importance.
(b) Failure.
(c) Success.
(d) Immediacy.

6. What was Jacqueline Lamba's occupation?
(a) Pianist.
(b) Sculptor.
(c) Vocalist.
(d) Painter.

7. Who was presumably with Breton in Brittany in Section 6?
(a) Lamba.
(b) Cezanne.
(c) Marie.
(d) Dali.

8. In Section 5, Breton compared passing through the rough landscape to the volcano with passing through what?
(a) Life.
(b) Danger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Desire.

9. New Justine was set against the backdrop of what location?
(a) The Swiss Alps.
(b) Mt. McKinley.
(c) Mt. Ranier.
(d) Mt. Etna.

10. What book states that once private property is abolished, "we can reasonably affirm that far from disappearing, monogamy will be realized for the first time'"?
(a) The Origins of the Family.
(b) The Origins of State.
(c) The Origins of Property.
(d) The Origins of Freedom.

11. What did Breton suggest had had a major influence on his love life in Section 6?
(a) Discord.
(b) God.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Venus.

12. Where did Breton go to the top of a volcano in Section 5?
(a) Gran Canaria.
(b) Tenerife.
(c) Lanzarote.
(d) La Palma.

13. What poem of Baudelaire's is discussed in Section 5?
(a) "Voyage."
(b) "Ending."
(c) "Opening."
(d) "Poesies."

14. Who wrote the film, L'Age d'or?
(a) Paul Cezanne.
(b) Luis Bunuel.
(c) Salvador Dali.
(d) Andre Breton.

15. The film L'Age d'or was controversial because it was considered an attack on what?
(a) The Anglican Church.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Catholic Church.
(d) Western Civilization.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who summarized his approach in the first line of chapter one of The Communist Manifesto: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles"?

3. Breton wrote, "What is required most earnestly to keep up this sort of life loses all its value at the passage of the great _____."

4. When was L'Age d'or released?

5. What term means an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast?

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