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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After fish swim into the shell of the shellfish, what does the pea-crab do?
(a) Nibble at the shellfish body as a signal to close.
(b) Steal the fish from the shellfish.
(c) Open its shell.
(d) Eat the shellfish.

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

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

5. Sartre was struck by what realization of Hughes's literary character, Emily?
(a) She was an invented child.
(b) She was she.
(c) She was a poet.
(d) She was the universe.

6. 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.

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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 daringness of an image.
(d) Analyze the origins of an image.

11. What is the term for the fear of open space?
(a) Claustrophobia.
(b) Agoraphobia.
(c) Arachnophobia.
(d) Hydrophobia.

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

13. What does Bachelard define as a coherent way to use reasoning to convincingly express primal images?
(a) A shell.
(b) A house.
(c) A realistic painting or drawing.
(d) A fairy tale.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard believes that, for Baudelaire, immensity is a category of what?

2. What does a phenomenologist look for?

3. In many countries, insists the author, tiny-ness is the center of what?

4. Ammonite shells spiral around what sort of axis?

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

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