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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. Where is the character, Emily, when she recognizes that she has withdrawn into herself?
(a) A boat.
(b) Her palace.
(c) Her childhood home.
(d) Climbing a tree.

2. Ammonite shells spiral around what sort of axis?
(a) Geometric.
(b) Logarithmic.
(c) Rectangular.
(d) Circular.

3. Why is a door ajar a quandary according to the author's perspective?
(a) It offers no protection, no matter how solidly built.
(b) A person must decide whether to open or close the door.
(c) Poetic imagery is inadequate to determine its meaning.
(d) It is neither open nor closed.

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

5. What is contained within Milosz's corners?
(a) Objects remembered by a dreamer in solitude.
(b) Cobwebs.
(c) Memories of childhood.
(d) Poetic images.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bachelard define as a coherent way to use reasoning to convincingly express primal images?

2. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?

3. What is the term for the fear of open space?

4. Who claimed that only the image can keep up with the changes of nature?

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

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