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Surrealist Manifesto - Quiz
Contributed by: Pratt
  • 1. In what year did Breton publish the Second manifeste du surréalisme?
A) 1930
B) 1929
C) 1928
D) 1942
  • 2. What did Breton ask surrealists to evaluate in his 1929 letters?
A) Political affiliation
B) Artistic proficiency
C) Literary style
D) Degree of moral competence
  • 3. Which magazine was founded by the group expelled by Breton?
A) Documents
B) Nadrealista Danas i Ovde
C) Prolegomena
D) Surrealism at the Service of the Revolution
  • 4. Who edited the magazine Documents?
A) André Breton
B) Georges Bataille
C) Salvador Dalí
D) Tristan Tzara
  • 5. What was the core philosophy of Georges Bataille?
A) Anti-idealist materialism
B) Classical idealism
C) Political neutralism
D) Pure surrealism
  • 6. Which of these individuals was expelled by Breton in the second manifesto?
A) Max Ernst
B) Paul Eluard
C) Robert Desnos
D) Salvador Dalí
  • 7. What was the title of the group that supported Breton's Second Manifesto?
A) The Anti-Idealist Group
B) The Belgrade Surrealists
C) Documents Collective
D) Surrealism at the Service of the Revolution
  • 8. Which publication reflected on the potential for a third manifesto in 1942?
A) Second manifeste du surréalisme
B) Documents
C) Nadrealista Danas i Ovde
D) Prolegomena to a Third Manifesto or Not
  • 9. Which group from Belgrade was aligned with Breton?
A) Nadrealista Danas i Ovde
B) The Documents contributors
C) The Idealist Surrealists
D) The Paris Collective
  • 10. What did the magazine Documents focus on according to Bataille's philosophy?
A) Refining artistic technique
B) Collective moral competence
C) Human base instincts
D) Political revolution
  • 11. Which surrealist was NOT expelled by Breton in 1929?
A) Jacques Prévert
B) André Masson
C) Salvador Dalí
D) Raymond Queneau
  • 12. Did André Breton publish a third manifesto?
A) Yes, in 1930
B) No
C) Yes, in 1942
D) Yes, along with the second
  • 13. In what year were the two competing manifestos titled 'Manifeste du surréalisme' published?
A) 1929
B) 1924
C) 1922
D) 1942
  • 14. Which leader published his manifesto on October 1, 1924?
A) Yvan Goll
B) Tristan Tzara
C) Guillaume Apollinaire
D) André Breton
  • 15. When did André Breton publish his first manifesto?
A) October 1, 1929
B) October 1, 1924
C) October 15, 1929
D) October 15, 1924
  • 16. The two rival surrealist groups claimed to be successors of which figure?
A) Marquis de Sade
B) Arthur Rimbaud
C) Guillaume Apollinaire
D) Charles Baudelaire
  • 17. Which journal published Yvan Goll's manifesto?
A) La Révolution surréaliste
B) Dada
C) Éditions du Sagittaire
D) Surréalisme
  • 18. Where did the quarrel between Goll and Breton over the term 'surrealism' take place?
A) The Louvre
B) A cafe in Montmartre
C) The Sorbonne
D) Comédie des Champs-Élysées
  • 19. How is surrealism defined in Breton's first manifesto?
A) Psychic automatism in its pure state
B) The conscious control of creative output
C) A political doctrine based on socialism
D) A structured movement of artistic realism
  • 20. Which movement influenced the absurdist manner of Breton's manifesto?
A) Futurism
B) Expressionism
C) Cubism
D) Dadaism
  • 21. What state does Breton identify as a surreal state?
A) Rational thought
B) Lucid wakefulness
C) Deep meditation
D) Hypnagogia
  • 22. Who published André Breton's 1924 manifesto?
A) Tristan Tzara
B) Yvan Goll
C) Surréalisme journal
D) Éditions du Sagittaire
  • 23. How many manifestos did André Breton write by 1930?
A) One
B) Four
C) Three
D) Two
  • 24. According to the text, which group did Tristan Tzara belong to?
A) The group led by Yvan Goll
B) The group led by André Breton
C) The group led by Paul Éluard
D) An independent group
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