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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Details and insignificant features, such as the curve of a molding, may inspire what, according to Bachelard?
(a) New architectural designs.
(b) Daydreams.
(c) Memories of houses past.
(d) The flow of rhyming words.

2. Bachelard believes that, for Baudelaire, immensity is a category of what?
(a) Immortality.
(b) Memories.
(c) Poetic imagination.
(d) Past and present.

3. What idea, prevalent in novels, did Sartre seek to illuminate?
(a) Human intimacy.
(b) Invented childhood.
(c) Introversion.
(d) Extroversion.

4. What image does Bachelard propose to give a door sacred character?
(a) Elaborate locks and keys.
(b) A mythical threshold god.
(c) An elaborate molding.
(d) Opaque peep holes.

5. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?
(a) It is too easily used and explains nothing.
(b) Poetic phenomenology is always of the future.
(c) It creates a confusion of familial memories.
(d) It casts a pall of oldness and staleness over a poetic image.

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

7. In the words of Bachelard, a mollusk that weighs fourteen pounds but with a shell that weighs five hundred or more pounds can be described in what way?
(a) An impossibility.
(b) A metaphor.
(c) An immense dream of nature.
(d) A miracle.

8. Why is a door ajar a quandary according to the author's perspective?
(a) It is neither open nor closed.
(b) It offers no protection, no matter how solidly built.
(c) Poetic imagery is inadequate to determine its meaning.
(d) A person must decide whether to open or close the door.

9. Who used a tree to evoke a sense of grandeur that magnifies to the tree's surroundings?
(a) Milosz.
(b) Rilke.
(c) Diole.
(d) Baudelaire.

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

11. Who imagined a snail rolling over and over to form its shell internally?
(a) Pare.
(b) Robinet.
(c) Palissy.
(d) Michelet.

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

13. Who, according to Bachelard, sees everything as small from atop their towers of domination?
(a) Scientists.
(b) World leaders.
(c) Poets.
(d) Philosophers.

14. 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 matter of scientific observation.
(d) A miniature universe.

15. What does a phenomenologist look for?
(a) Sexually-obsessed behavior.
(b) Observable facts or events.
(c) New theories.
(d) Poetic inspiration.

Short Answer Questions

1. While a phenomenologist accepts a poetic image, what will a psychologist do in the opinion of Bachelard?

2. In Bachelard's topoanalysis, in which level of a house does common sense live?

3. What enables a person to hear differently in the opinion of the author?

4. The cooperative efforts of a blind shellfish and patron pea-crab exemplify what sort of behavior?

5. Bachelard proposes that a person's time, speech, and very being are affected by what?

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