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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Breton and Lamba pass after the Tour Saint-Jacques?
(a) Quai aux Fleurs.
(b) Villeneuve-les-Avignon.
(c) ÃŽle Saint-Louis.
(d) Bois de Boulogne.

2. Who does Breton refer to as a symbolic founder of civilization in Section 6?
(a) Aeneas.
(b) Homer.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Zeus.

3. What did Breton see as a monument to things that are hidden, in Section 4?
(a) Tour Saint-Jacques.
(b) Villeneuve-les-Avignon.
(c) ÃŽle Saint-Louis.
(d) Bois de Boulogne.

4. Breton remarked in Section 4 that he had retained a copy of "Sunflower" for over how long?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 10 years.

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

6. In what year did Breton describe a trip to Brittany, in Section 6?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1924.

7. Breton refers to the myth of Venus and the what?
(a) Golden Apple.
(b) Golden Ring.
(c) Golden Harp.
(d) Golden Hind.

8. What did Breton write that he considered "temptation" to be?
(a) Divine.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Deadly.
(d) Evil.

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

10. Breton described feeling an overwhelming need for what, while in Brittany in Section 6?
(a) Reinforcement.
(b) Affection.
(c) Love.
(d) Solitude.

11. Breton wrote, "What is required most earnestly to keep up this sort of life loses all its value at the passage of the great _____."
(a) Mad love.
(b) Dream fruits.
(c) Dream trees.
(d) Dream fantasy.

12. 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 Property.
(b) The Origins of Freedom.
(c) The Origins of State.
(d) The Origins of the Family.

13. In Section 4, Breton cites one of his poems where the tower sways like what?
(a) A sunflower.
(b) A bridge.
(c) A tree.
(d) A blade of grass.

14. In Section 5, Breton described some of the automatic writing games, including the repetition of some "childhood mirages," most notably the phrases "tree for bread" and "tree for" what?
(a) Trust.
(b) Truth.
(c) Butter.
(d) Honey.

15. Who wrote the Aeneid?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Homer.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who directed the film, L'Age d'or?

2. Breton regretted, in Section 4, that he no longer had the _____ of "Sunflower."

3. Who wrote Alice in Wonderland?

4. Who painted The House of the Hanged Man?

5. New Justine was set against the backdrop of what location?

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