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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bachelard believes that what must flow within in order to appreciate the dream process?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Ontology.
(c) Topophilia.
(d) Humility.

2. What does a phenomenologist look for?
(a) Observable facts or events.
(b) Poetic inspiration.
(c) New theories.
(d) Sexually-obsessed behavior.

3. What is the eighteenth-century theory that states the purpose of life is to make shells?
(a) Ontogenesis.
(b) Phenomenology.
(c) Ontology.
(d) Homology.

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

5. A corner is a half-box between what two entities as described by Bachelard?
(a) Flat and three-dimensional.
(b) Vertical and horizontal.
(c) Freedom and entrapment.
(d) Inside and outside.

6. Bachelard cites Michaux's poem "Shade-Haunted Space" to illustrate what?
(a) Man is a surface being.
(b) Man is a half-open being.
(c) The significance of unuttered words and unfulfilled intentions.
(d) Geometric reasoning.

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

8. Contrary to the intellectual philosopher, states Bachelard, a poet may use words in what way?
(a) To create false illusions.
(b) To describe the origins of man.
(c) For sensitivity rather than precision.
(d) For rhythm and rhyme, rather than meaning.

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

10. An inversion of perspective takes us where according to Bachelard?
(a) To the future where all is possible.
(b) To the horizon where everything appears smaller.
(c) Back to childhood with the reality of toys.
(d) To a rejection of scientific thought.

11. Why is a door ajar a quandary according to the author's perspective?
(a) Poetic imagery is inadequate to determine its meaning.
(b) It offers no protection, no matter how solidly built.
(c) It is neither open nor closed.
(d) A person must decide whether to open or close the door.

12. What, in the opinion of Bachelard, moves the dreamer into the world of infinity?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Immensity.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Boundaries.

13. In the work of Milosz, how did he indicate that corners are not always safe?
(a) Corners are sometimes hiding places.
(b) Corners are pointy when inverted.
(c) Corners are sometimes bug-filled.
(d) Corners can be hard and cold.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are two opposing truths introduced by Bachelard in "Corners" regarding corners?

3. Who, according to Bachelard, sees everything as small from atop their towers of domination?

4. The cooperative efforts of a blind shellfish and patron pea-crab exemplify what sort of behavior?

5. Baudelaire used the term "vast" to describe what?

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