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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?
(a) The human body that encases the soul like an envelope.
(b) The hut.
(c) The origin of man.
(d) The creation of earth.

2. For Bachelard, what is the dichotomy of doors?
(a) Doors ajar offer no protection, no matter how solidly built.
(b) Doors invite inside, but also shut out.
(c) Doors can be opened into the world of men or into the world of solitude.
(d) Open doors function as windows.

3. 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.

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

5. How do psychoanalysts refer to the duality of self?
(a) Introvert and extrovert.
(b) Poet and scientist.
(c) Open and closed.
(d) Contained and universal.

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

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

8. 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 degree of shared phenomenological similarity.
(d) From a belief in supernatural presences.

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

10. In folklore and poetry, as described by Bachelard, how is image size transposed?
(a) Image size has no meaning.
(b) Larger with the passage of time.
(c) Back and forth from large to small.
(d) Smaller with the loss of memories.

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

12. For Bachelard, what is amusing about space images?
(a) All complications can be eliminated from consideration.
(b) Poetic space images of today become the reality of tomorrow.
(c) Space images evoke childhood happiness.
(d) Space images represent impossibilities.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As experienced by Bachelard, who sees only negative sublimation?

3. Ammonite shells spiral around what sort of axis?

4. Why did Diole study and write about the desert?

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

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