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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For Bachelard, what does the metaphor of old forests that go on without limit represent?
(a) A search for fantasy.
(b) Immortality.
(c) A yearning for the childhood house.
(d) Man's search deep within.

3. For Bachelard, what allows language to return to free-form expression without old hardened metaphors?
(a) Lack of inhibition.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Recalled memory.
(d) Phenomenology.

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

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

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

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

8. Which French scholar envisioned a fortress town based on the spiral design of shells?
(a) Bachelard.
(b) Robinet.
(c) Palissy.
(d) Michelet.

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

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

11. The cynical character created by the poet Milosz reminisces where?
(a) In his palace.
(b) In a tree.
(c) In church.
(d) In a boat.

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

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

14. What enables a person to hear differently in the opinion of the author?
(a) Closing his eyes.
(b) Learning a foreign language.
(c) Studying metaphysics.
(d) Learning the language of poetry.

15. What is unique about the nesting behavior of the cuckoo?
(a) The cuckoo hollows out its nest by using its breast.
(b) The cuckoo builds its nest on the ground.
(c) The cuckoo builds its nest below ground, creating an ultra-cellar.
(d) The cuckoo lays its eggs in a foreign nest when the mother is away, so that mother will hatch the cuckoo eggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard proposes that a person's time, speech, and very being are affected by what?

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

3. Who imagined a snail rolling over and over to form its shell internally?

4. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?

5. For Bachelard, what is amusing about space images?

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