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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. According to the author, what sort of thought entails "either/or" with no middle ground?
(a) Phenomenology.
(b) Ontology.
(c) Memory.
(d) Scientific thought.

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

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

6. In Bachelard's topoanalysis, in which level of a house does common sense live?
(a) Stairways.
(b) The cellar.
(c) The ground floor.
(d) The attic.

7. Why does a conchologist classify shells?
(a) To find the origin of creation.
(b) To discover diversity.
(c) To better understand mollusks.
(d) To determine the age of the planet.

8. What are two opposing truths introduced by Bachelard in "Corners" regarding corners?
(a) Corners can be real or imaginary.
(b) One can be at peace in a corner or can be cornered there.
(c) Corners can be solid or weak.
(d) Corners can be clean or neglected.

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

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. 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 a moon of Saturn.
(c) His spirit lives within the sun.
(d) His name was given to the small star that drives the Grand Chariot or Great Bear constellation.

12. As explained by Bachelard, why do the terms inside and outside not represent symmetrical realities?
(a) Inside is limited, while outside is vast and unlimited.
(b) Inside is manmade, while outside is natural.
(c) Inside contains memories, while outside evokes the future.
(d) Inside is controlled, while outside contains storms and dangers.

13. How does Tom Thumb's stature become believable?
(a) Via words in the pages of a book.
(b) When described relative to a grain of dust.
(c) Via personal experience.
(d) When seen through a magnifying glass.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bachelard refer to words?

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

3. What does Bachelard say makes miniatures of all things seen?

4. For Bachelard, what does the metaphor of old forests that go on without limit represent?

5. For Bachelard, what allows language to return to free-form expression without old hardened metaphors?

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