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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. What enables a person to hear differently in the opinion of the author?
(a) Learning the language of poetry.
(b) Studying metaphysics.
(c) Closing his eyes.
(d) Learning a foreign language.

2. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?
(a) Memories lost in a filing cabinet.
(b) Lost intimacy.
(c) Abandonment.
(d) Poetic irony.

3. 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.

4. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Intimacy.
(c) Poetic structure.
(d) Dreams.

5. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?
(a) Superimposed cellars.
(b) Superimposed boxes.
(c) Ultra-boxes.
(d) Ultra-cellars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?

2. What is the eighteenth-century theory that states the purpose of life is to make shells?

3. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?

4. In the opinion of Bachelard, a corner is a place of what sort of motion?

5. After fish swim into the shell of the shellfish, what does the pea-crab do?

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