Surrealist Manifesto

Surrealist Manifesto - Quiz

1. In what year did Breton publish the Second manifeste du surréalisme?

A) 1942
B) 1930
C) 1929
D) 1928

2. What did Breton ask surrealists to evaluate in his 1929 letters?

A) Political affiliation
B) Degree of moral competence
C) Artistic proficiency
D) Literary style

3. Which magazine was founded by the group expelled by Breton?

A) Nadrealista Danas i Ovde
B) Prolegomena
C) Documents
D) Surrealism at the Service of the Revolution

4. Who edited the magazine Documents?

A) Salvador Dalí
B) André Breton
C) Tristan Tzara
D) Georges Bataille

5. What was the core philosophy of Georges Bataille?

A) Classical idealism
B) Political neutralism
C) Anti-idealist materialism
D) Pure surrealism

6. Which of these individuals was expelled by Breton in the second manifesto?

A) Robert Desnos
B) Salvador Dalí
C) Max Ernst
D) Paul Eluard

7. What was the title of the group that supported Breton's Second Manifesto?

A) Surrealism at the Service of the Revolution
B) The Belgrade Surrealists
C) Documents Collective
D) The Anti-Idealist Group

8. Which publication reflected on the potential for a third manifesto in 1942?

A) Documents
B) Nadrealista Danas i Ovde
C) Second manifeste du surréalisme
D) Prolegomena to a Third Manifesto or Not

9. Which group from Belgrade was aligned with Breton?

A) The Documents contributors
B) The Idealist Surrealists
C) Nadrealista Danas i Ovde
D) The Paris Collective

10. What did the magazine Documents focus on according to Bataille's philosophy?

A) Human base instincts
B) Collective moral competence
C) Political revolution
D) Refining artistic technique

11. Which surrealist was NOT expelled by Breton in 1929?

A) Salvador Dalí
B) Jacques Prévert
C) Raymond Queneau
D) André Masson

12. Did André Breton publish a third manifesto?

A) Yes, in 1930
B) Yes, in 1942
C) Yes, along with the second
D) No

13. In what year were the two competing manifestos titled 'Manifeste du surréalisme' published?

A) 1924
B) 1929
C) 1922
D) 1942

14. Which leader published his manifesto on October 1, 1924?

A) Tristan Tzara
B) Yvan Goll
C) Guillaume Apollinaire
D) André Breton

15. When did André Breton publish his first manifesto?

A) October 1, 1929
B) October 15, 1924
C) October 1, 1924
D) October 15, 1929

16. The two rival surrealist groups claimed to be successors of which figure?

A) Arthur Rimbaud
B) Marquis de Sade
C) Charles Baudelaire
D) Guillaume Apollinaire

17. Which journal published Yvan Goll's manifesto?

A) Dada
B) Éditions du Sagittaire
C) La Révolution surréaliste
D) Surréalisme

18. Where did the quarrel between Goll and Breton over the term 'surrealism' take place?

A) Comédie des Champs-Élysées
B) The Sorbonne
C) The Louvre
D) A cafe in Montmartre

19. How is surrealism defined in Breton's first manifesto?

A) A political doctrine based on socialism
B) Psychic automatism in its pure state
C) A structured movement of artistic realism
D) The conscious control of creative output

20. Which movement influenced the absurdist manner of Breton's manifesto?

A) Dadaism
B) Futurism
C) Expressionism
D) Cubism

21. What state does Breton identify as a surreal state?

A) Deep meditation
B) Rational thought
C) Lucid wakefulness
D) Hypnagogia

22. Who published André Breton's 1924 manifesto?

A) Tristan Tzara
B) Éditions du Sagittaire
C) Yvan Goll
D) Surréalisme journal

23. How many manifestos did André Breton write by 1930?

A) Two
B) Four
C) One
D) Three

24. According to the text, which group did Tristan Tzara belong to?

A) An independent group
B) The group led by André Breton
C) The group led by Yvan Goll
D) The group led by Paul Éluard

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