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Introduction

1. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?
(a) Scientist.
(b) Architect.
(c) Poet.
(d) Psychoanalyst.

2. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?
(a) The field of psychoanalysis.
(b) The poetic imagination.
(c) The intricacies of architecture.
(d) The real estate market.

3. What is another word for ontology?
(a) Beingness.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Causality.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

4. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?
(a) Reverberation.
(b) Causality.
(c) Poetic imagery.
(d) Beingness.

5. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?
(a) Causality.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Art.
(d) Reverberation.

6. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?
(a) Relax at home.
(b) Establish a metaphysics of the imagination.
(c) Study psychoanalysis.
(d) Understand causality.

7. What is a commitment of the soul according to the author?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Death.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) Shelter.

8. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Internalities, that which we say.
(b) Externalities, that which we say.
(c) Externalities, that which we hear.
(d) Internalities, that which we hear.

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