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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 term relates to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies?
(a) Tarot.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Occult.
(d) Heathenism.
2. 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 _____."
(a) Unlikely.
(b) Undoable.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Unattainable.
3. 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) Fight-or-flight.
(b) Nurture.
(c) Death.
(d) Life.
4. In Freud's theory, the ego mediates among the ___, the super-ego and the external world.
(a) Ego.
(b) Self.
(c) Super-ego.
(d) Id.
5. What French aristocrat and author from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century is known for his erotic and blasphemous novels, many of which were written while he was imprisoned?
(a) Andre Breton.
(b) Marquis de Sade.
(c) Charles Baudelaire.
(d) Antonin Artaud.
Short Answer Questions
1. The Hegelian dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and what?
2. Breton announces in Section 2 that one of the purposes of Mad Love will be to explore _____ encounter with chance.
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. What term refers to a violent agitation or disturbance; commotion?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Breton's conclusion of the purpose of the objects in Section 3?
2. What did Breton conclude about the use of public survey in Section 2?
3. What did Breton conclude would be his approach in Mad Love in Section 2?
4. What was the first object found by Breton and Giacometti in Section 3?
5. What questions did Breton pose in Section 2? Where were they published?
6. What is the subject and focus of Mad Love? What previous work of Andre Breton's did it expand upon?
7. How effective was Breton's survey in Section 2? What did he conclude?
8. What did the second found object in Section 3 represent for Breton?
9. How did Breton go about stating his case on "convulsive beauty" in Section 1?
10. Who was Friedrich Engels? How did he influence Breton?
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