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 Where is the character, Emily, when she recognizes that she has withdrawn into herself?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

2. How is Tom Thumb's influence transposed into the sky?
(a) His name was given to a moon of Saturn.
(b) His name was given to the small star that drives the Grand Chariot or Great Bear constellation.
(c) His name was given to a star within the Little Dipper constellation.
(d) His spirit lives within the sun.

3. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?
(a) Winter.
(b) Spring.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Summer.

4. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?
(a) A vacant house.
(b) A hermit's hut.
(c) A childhood home.
(d) A man dreaming of poetic imagery.

5. In the words of Bachelard, a mollusk that weighs fourteen pounds but with a shell that weighs five hundred or more pounds can be described in what way?
(a) A metaphor.
(b) An immense dream of nature.
(c) An impossibility.
(d) A miracle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?

2. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?

3. What is another word for ontology?

4. The cooperative efforts of a blind shellfish and patron pea-crab exemplify what sort of behavior?

5. Who created the tiny character Tom Thumb?

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