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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the paradox of an old forest, as explained by the author?
(a) A forest is frightening yet offers a sense of security.
(b) A forest seems real and concrete yet fantastic.
(c) It seems infinite within its own boundaries.
(d) A forest is old but contains new saplings.

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. Through a magnifying glass, what does the first view of any phenomenon become in the author's opinion?
(a) A miniature universe.
(b) A matter of scientific observation.
(c) A revelation of never-before-seen flaws.
(d) A disruption of poetic thought.

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

11. How is Tom Thumb's influence transposed into the sky?
(a) His name was given to a star within the Little Dipper constellation.
(b) His name was given to the small star that drives the Grand Chariot or Great Bear constellation.
(c) His name was given to a moon of Saturn.
(d) His spirit lives within the sun.

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

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

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

15. According to Valery, how does a mollusk build?
(a) From outside, to enter later for protection.
(b) From the remains of old shells.
(c) From the inside as a living form.
(d) From an instinctive poetic vision.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does every corner or angle in a house symbolize for Bachelard?

3. What is the eighteenth-century theory that states the purpose of life is to make shells?

4. Details and insignificant features, such as the curve of a molding, may inspire what, according to Bachelard?

5. Who used a tree to evoke a sense of grandeur that magnifies to the tree's surroundings?

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