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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. What is forgotten by Milosz's cynical character?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Everything.
(c) Childhood memories.
(d) Recent happy times.

2. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?
(a) Poetic daydreams.
(b) New memories.
(c) Poetic descriptions of the night.
(d) New resolutions to nightmares.

3. What does Bachelard believe is an antidote for claustrophobia?
(a) Spending time away from one's house.
(b) Stairways.
(c) Light colors.
(d) Dynamic houses that open back out to the universe.

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

5. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.
(b) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.
(c) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(d) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.

Short Answer Questions

1. While a phenomenologist accepts a poetic image, what will a psychologist do in the opinion of Bachelard?

2. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?

3. Which is the best description of Diole?

4. How does Tom Thumb's stature become believable?

5. For Bachelard, the well-being of a nest diminishes what?

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