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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bachelard say makes miniatures of all things seen?
(a) Distance to the horizon.
(b) Consideration of the nest and the shell.
(c) Thoughts of the universe's infiniteness.
(d) Thoughts of death and afterlife.

2. Who often ignores the miniature worlds and objects in fairy tales in the author's opinion?
(a) Philosophers and psychologists.
(b) Poets.
(c) Children.
(d) Bachelard.

3. Which is the best description of Diole?
(a) Pnemonologist.
(b) Poet and painter.
(c) Scientist and entrepreneur.
(d) Psychologist and ontologist of under-sea life.

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

5. Why did Diole study and write about the desert?
(a) To wander in the desert is to experience the poetic imagery of life.
(b) To get lost in the desert is to be a snail out of its shell.
(c) To wander in the desert is to change space and enter a psychically innovative one.
(d) To get lost in the desert is to experience the loss of childhood memories.

6. Bachelard proposes that a person's time, speech, and very being are affected by what?
(a) Solitude.
(b) Silence.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Death.

7. According to the author, the cuckoo can be compared with which water creature?
(a) The hermit crab.
(b) The mollusk.
(c) The pea-crab.
(d) The shellfish.

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

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

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

11. In what way for Bachelard do fantasy images have some objectivity?
(a) From a sense of shared experience.
(b) From a belief in supernatural presences.
(c) From a sense of past lives.
(d) From a degree of shared phenomenological similarity.

12. Who lives in the new that guides the phenomenologist in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) The psychoanalyst.
(b) The scientist.
(c) The poet.
(d) The psychologist.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Outside and inside space are like a mixture of what two concepts, in the opinion of the author?

2. In folklore and poetry, as described by Bachelard, how is image size transposed?

3. Bachelard believes that philosophers are condemned by their equals to live on which floor of a house, metaphorically speaking?

4. When a phenomenologist observes an extravagant daydream, what does the psychoanalyst see?

5. What is contained within Milosz's corners?

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