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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Section 3 begins by invoking one of the cornerstones of the avant-garde, referred to as what?
(a) The rebellious.
(b) The new.
(c) The obscure.
(d) The different.

3. What refers to the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference?
(a) Structure.
(b) Fate.
(c) Chance.
(d) Logic.

4. What year was it that Breton recounted going to a restaurant, in Section 1?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1941.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. What did Breton note was "lacking" in Giacometti's sculpture?

3. What represents that organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions?

4. 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?

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 _____."

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Friedrich Engels? How did he influence Breton?

2. Who was Sigmund Freud? What impact did he have on the Surrealist Movement?

3. What did the dishwasher call out in the diner, in Section 1? Why did Breton point to this?

4. What did Breton note about Giacometti's sculpture in Section 3?

5. What lines of Lautremont's did Breton quote in Section 1? Why?

6. What did Breton conclude about the use of public survey in Section 2?

7. What did Breton write in Section 1 of "the woman to appear"? How did he relate this to the Tarot?

8. What is the subject and focus of Section 2 in Mad Love?

9. What did Breton write in the postscripts for Section 3?

10. What did Breton write of juxtaposition in the found object in Section 3?

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