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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. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Psychologist.
(c) Psychoanalyst.
(d) Artist.

2. Who, according to Bachelard, sees everything as small from atop their towers of domination?
(a) Poets.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Scientists.
(d) World leaders.

3. For Bachelard, what does the metaphor of old forests that go on without limit represent?
(a) Immortality.
(b) A yearning for the childhood house.
(c) A search for fantasy.
(d) Man's search deep within.

4. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?
(a) Poetic phenomenology is always of the future.
(b) It is too easily used and explains nothing.
(c) It casts a pall of oldness and staleness over a poetic image.
(d) It creates a confusion of familial memories.

5. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?
(a) Attic fears indicate childhood trauma.
(b) Attic fears take longer fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(c) Attic fears may be reasoned away.
(d) Attic fears indicate spiritual unrest.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Bachelard, why is the inner space of a wardrobe an intimate space?

2. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?

3. Where is the character, Emily, when she recognizes that she has withdrawn into herself?

4. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?

5. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?

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