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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 comprises that organized part of the personality structure that criticizes and prohibits his or her drives, fantasies, feelings, and actions?
(a) Id.
(b) Super-ego.
(c) Self.
(d) Ego.

2. What nineteenth-century French poet's Les fleurs du mal was very influential on surrealism?
(a) Charles Baudelaire's.
(b) Andre Breton's.
(c) Marquis de Sade's.
(d) Antonin Artaud's.

3. Whose grief at the premature death of his wife, Nusch, in 1946 inspired the work "Le temps déborde" in 1947?
(a) Andre Breton's.
(b) Paul Eluard's.
(c) Sam Beckett's.
(d) Antonin Artaud's.

4. What is the original French title of Mad Love?
(a) L'Air de l'eau.
(b) L'Amour fou.
(c) L'Immaculée Conception.
(d) Manifeste du surréalisme.

5. What term refers to a violent agitation or disturbance; commotion?
(a) Explosion.
(b) Convulsion.
(c) Reaction.
(d) Expulsion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who published Illuminations in 1874?

2. Breton stated, in the first postscript of Section 3, that he had repressed the connection between the spoon and the what?

3. The Hegelian dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and what?

4. What term relates to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies?

5. What did the dishwasher shout in the diner, as described by Breton in Section 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Breton define "chance" in Section 2?

2. What questions did Breton pose in Section 2? Where were they published?

3. What was Breton's conclusion of the purpose of the objects in Section 3?

4. What story of a diner did Breton recount in Section 1? What descriptions did he use?

5. How effective was Breton's survey in Section 2? What did he conclude?

6. What is the subject and focus of Section 3? What story did Breton retell in illustrating this subject?

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

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

9. What did Breton remark about the responses received from the survey in Section 2?

10. What metaphor did Breton use in defining "convulsive beauty" in Section 1?

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