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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Outside and inside space are like a mixture of what two concepts, in the opinion of the author?
(a) Being and nothingness.
(b) Past and future.
(c) Life and death.
(d) Cold and heat.

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

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

4. In Bachelard's topoanalysis, in which level of a house does common sense live?
(a) The ground floor.
(b) Stairways.
(c) The attic.
(d) The cellar.

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

6. According to Bachelard, what term can describe the emergence of being through poetry and contemplation of poetic immensity?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Psychic transformation.
(c) Death.
(d) Calm.

7. How is Tom Thumb killed?
(a) By a snail.
(b) By the kick of an ant.
(c) By a grain of dust.
(d) By the footsteps of a larger man.

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

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

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

11. Who created the tiny character Tom Thumb?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rilke.
(c) Hugo.
(d) Van Gogh.

12. What are two opposing truths introduced by Bachelard in "Corners" regarding corners?
(a) Corners can be solid or weak.
(b) One can be at peace in a corner or can be cornered there.
(c) Corners can be clean or neglected.
(d) Corners can be real or imaginary.

13. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?
(a) A cat.
(b) A snail.
(c) Man.
(d) A dog.

14. In the opinion of Bachelard, a corner is a place of what sort of motion?
(a) Immobility.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Vertical and horizontal.
(d) Three-dimensional space.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is a door ajar a quandary according to the author's perspective?

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

3. Through a magnifying glass, what does the first view of any phenomenon become in the author's opinion?

4. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?

5. Why does a conchologist classify shells?

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