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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Valery's knowledge of geometry failed him in what regard?
(a) The ability to understand how the earth circumnavigates the sun.
(b) The ability to understand why a mollusk coils to the left or to the right.
(c) The ability to understand the scope of nature.
(d) The ability to understand how a bird constructs a circular nest.

4. Ammonite shells spiral around what sort of axis?
(a) Circular.
(b) Geometric.
(c) Logarithmic.
(d) Rectangular.

5. In many countries, insists the author, tiny-ness is the center of what?
(a) Inadequacy.
(b) An invitation to daydream.
(c) Decision over the great.
(d) A return to childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?

2. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?

3. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?

4. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?

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

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