View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dialectics of Outside and Inside.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?
(a) Happy, with doorknobs and chimney smoke.
(b) A dream house.
(c) Small and dark.
(d) Cold, motionless, and rigid.

2. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) Subjective feelings and dreams.
(b) Subjective matters of taste and style.
(c) The objects it contains.
(d) Its decor.

3. Which French scholar envisioned a fortress town based on the spiral design of shells?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Palissy.
(c) Robinet.
(d) Bachelard.

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

5. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?
(a) Pasternak.
(b) Pare.
(c) Vlaminck.
(d) Van Gogh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is contained within Milosz's corners?

2. Bachelard believes that, for Baudelaire, immensity is a category of what?

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

4. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?

5. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 263 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample