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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Miniature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?
(a) Desire to move to a new house.
(b) Objective irony.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Poetic irony.

2. In folklore and poetry, as described by Bachelard, how is image size transposed?
(a) Smaller with the loss of memories.
(b) Larger with the passage of time.
(c) Back and forth from large to small.
(d) Image size has no meaning.

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

4. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?
(a) When it is assailed by elements of nature.
(b) When it is immortalized by a poet.
(c) When a new family moves in.
(d) When it is vacant.

5. What idea, prevalent in novels, did Sartre seek to illuminate?
(a) Human intimacy.
(b) Extroversion.
(c) Introversion.
(d) Invented childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?

2. A woodpecker pecking in a tree can be compared to what in the author's continuing metaphor?

3. With what did Pasternak identify the nest?

4. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?

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

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