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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. As experienced by Bachelard, who sees only negative sublimation?
(a) The poet.
(b) The psychoanalyst.
(c) The psychologist.
(d) The scientist.

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

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

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

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

10. Poets, states Bachelard, use words to bring together what two entities?
(a) Past and present.
(b) Inside and outside.
(c) Individual and universe.
(d) Earth and sky.

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

12. When a phenomenologist observes an extravagant daydream, what does the psychoanalyst see?
(a) Ontogenesis.
(b) Oneiric behavior.
(c) Anthropo-cosmology.
(d) Sexually-obsessed behavior.

13. What enables a person to hear differently in the opinion of the author?
(a) Closing his eyes.
(b) Learning a foreign language.
(c) Learning the language of poetry.
(d) Studying metaphysics.

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

15. What is forgotten by Milosz's cynical character?
(a) Everything.
(b) Recent happy times.
(c) Childhood memories.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is able to invent forms emerging from shells that are beyond scientific research according to Bachelard's theories based on the work of Baltrusaitis?

2. Bachelard cites Michaux's poem "Shade-Haunted Space" to illustrate what?

3. Valery's knowledge of geometry failed him in what regard?

4. What image does Bachelard propose to give a door sacred character?

5. Contrary to the intellectual philosopher, states Bachelard, a poet may use words in what way?

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