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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Bachelard believes that, for Baudelaire, immensity is a category of what?
(a) Immortality.
(b) Poetic imagination.
(c) Memories.
(d) Past and present.

4. Bachelard believes that philosophers are condemned by their equals to live on which floor of a house, metaphorically speaking?
(a) The ground floor.
(b) The cellar.
(c) The attic.
(d) Stairways.

5. Poets, states Bachelard, use words to bring together what two entities?
(a) Earth and sky.
(b) Past and present.
(c) Individual and universe.
(d) Inside and outside.

6. Why does a conchologist classify shells?
(a) To discover diversity.
(b) To better understand mollusks.
(c) To determine the age of the planet.
(d) To find the origin of creation.

7. Baudelaire used the term "vast" to describe what?
(a) Intimate meaning, including synthesis, perspective, unity and movement.
(b) The variety of words and meanings.
(c) The language of poets.
(d) The infinity of intimate space.

8. As explained by Bachelard, why do the terms inside and outside not represent symmetrical realities?
(a) Inside is manmade, while outside is natural.
(b) Inside is controlled, while outside contains storms and dangers.
(c) Inside contains memories, while outside evokes the future.
(d) Inside is limited, while outside is vast and unlimited.

9. While a phenomenologist accepts a poetic image, what will a psychologist do in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Analyze the daringness of an image.
(b) Reject the image.
(c) Analyze the origins of an image.
(d) Refine the image.

10. What does every corner or angle in a house symbolize for Bachelard?
(a) Solitude for the imagination.
(b) Memories lost in cobwebs.
(c) Impassable boundaries.
(d) Blocked thought.

11. Bachelard theorizes that an observer must pass through what sort of threshold to experience an inversion of perspective?
(a) A threshold of absurdity.
(b) A threshold of a doorway.
(c) A threshold from present to past.
(d) A threshold from metaphysics to psychology.

12. Who used a tree to evoke a sense of grandeur that magnifies to the tree's surroundings?
(a) Baudelaire.
(b) Diole.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Milosz.

13. According to Valery, how does a mollusk build?
(a) From the remains of old shells.
(b) From an instinctive poetic vision.
(c) From the inside as a living form.
(d) From outside, to enter later for protection.

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

15. How does Tom Thumb's stature become believable?
(a) Via personal experience.
(b) When described relative to a grain of dust.
(c) When seen through a magnifying glass.
(d) Via words in the pages of a book.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sartre was struck by what realization of Hughes's literary character, Emily?

2. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?

3. After fish swim into the shell of the shellfish, what does the pea-crab do?

4. What, in the opinion of Bachelard, moves the dreamer into the world of infinity?

5. What is the eighteenth-century theory that states the purpose of life is to make shells?

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