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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is contained within Milosz's corners?
(a) Memories of childhood.
(b) Poetic images.
(c) Cobwebs.
(d) Objects remembered by a dreamer in solitude.

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

3. When a phenomenologist observes an extravagant daydream, what does the psychoanalyst see?
(a) Anthropo-cosmology.
(b) Oneiric behavior.
(c) Ontogenesis.
(d) Sexually-obsessed behavior.

4. How is a nest connected to the foliage of the forest according to the author?
(a) It is hidden by the foliage, and constructed from the foliage.
(b) Both inspire daydreaming and poetry.
(c) Both are wonders of nature.
(d) A nest is at the mercy of surrounding foliage during windstorms.

5. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?
(a) Cherish their own homes.
(b) Yearn for the childhood house.
(c) Daydream or contemplate.
(d) Build a dream house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?

2. Who lives in the new that guides the phenomenologist in Bachelard's opinion?

3. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?

4. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?

5. According to the author, the cuckoo can be compared with which water creature?

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