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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. As experienced by Bachelard, who sees only negative sublimation?
(a) The poet.
(b) The scientist.
(c) The psychologist.
(d) The psychoanalyst.

2. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?
(a) A cat.
(b) Man.
(c) A dog.
(d) A snail.

3. Details and insignificant features, such as the curve of a molding, may inspire what, according to Bachelard?
(a) The flow of rhyming words.
(b) New architectural designs.
(c) Daydreams.
(d) Memories of houses past.

4. The cooperative efforts of a blind shellfish and patron pea-crab exemplify what sort of behavior?
(a) Poetic.
(b) Rational.
(c) Symbiotic.
(d) Predatory.

5. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Internalities, that which we say.
(b) Internalities, that which we hear.
(c) Externalities, that which we say.
(d) Externalities, that which we hear.

Short Answer Questions

1. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?

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

3. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?

4. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?

5. According to the author, what sort of thought entails "either/or" with no middle ground?

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