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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. In what way for Bachelard do fantasy images have some objectivity?
(a) From a degree of shared phenomenological similarity.
(b) From a belief in supernatural presences.
(c) From a sense of shared experience.
(d) From a sense of past lives.

2. With what did Pasternak identify the nest?
(a) Nature.
(b) Poetry.
(c) The childhood house.
(d) The world and its center.

3. What are two opposing truths introduced by Bachelard in "Corners" regarding corners?
(a) Corners can be clean or neglected.
(b) Corners can be real or imaginary.
(c) One can be at peace in a corner or can be cornered there.
(d) Corners can be solid or weak.

4. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?
(a) When a house is torn down, the memories fade.
(b) The soul cannot be at peace unless residing in the childhood home.
(c) Dates of events are more important than the sense of where they occur.
(d) Dates of events are less important than the sense of where they occur.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea, prevalent in novels, did Sartre seek to illuminate?

2. Through a magnifying glass, what does the first view of any phenomenon become in the author's opinion?

3. Contrary to the intellectual philosopher, states Bachelard, a poet may use words in what way?

4. Valery's knowledge of geometry failed him in what regard?

5. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?

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