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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dialectics of Outside and Inside.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) The inhabiting function.
(b) Wonders of nature.
(c) Poetic fancy.
(d) The universe.
2. Through a magnifying glass, what does the first view of any phenomenon become in the author's opinion?
(a) A miniature universe.
(b) A revelation of never-before-seen flaws.
(c) A disruption of poetic thought.
(d) A matter of scientific observation.
3. What are two opposing truths introduced by Bachelard in "Corners" regarding corners?
(a) Corners can be real or imaginary.
(b) Corners can be clean or neglected.
(c) One can be at peace in a corner or can be cornered there.
(d) Corners can be solid or weak.
4. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphor of drawers to describe the human brain?
(a) A chest of drawers is finite, while the brain's capacity is infinite.
(b) Items get lost in drawers.
(c) He wonders how reason determines which drawer should contain each new object.
(d) He wonders how objects would be retrieved from the drawers.
5. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?
(a) Pare.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Vlaminck.
(d) Pasternak.
Short Answer Questions
1. Poets, states Bachelard, use words to bring together what two entities?
2. Who, according to Bachelard, sees everything as small from atop their towers of domination?
3. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?
4. What is contained within Milosz's corners?
5. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?
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