2. 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.

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

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

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

6. What is the eighteenth-century theory that states the purpose of life is to make shells?
(a) Ontogenesis.
(b) Phenomenology.
(c) Ontology.
(d) Homology.

7. How is Tom Thumb killed?
(a) By a snail.
(b) By the footsteps of a larger man.
(c) By a grain of dust.
(d) By the kick of an ant.

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

9. What is unique about the nesting behavior of the cuckoo?
(a) The cuckoo lays its eggs in a foreign nest when the mother is away, so that mother will hatch the cuckoo eggs.
(b) The cuckoo builds its nest below ground, creating an ultra-cellar.
(c) The cuckoo hollows out its nest by using its breast.
(d) The cuckoo builds its nest on the ground.

10. While a phenomenologist accepts a poetic image, what will a psychologist do in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Analyze the origins of an image.
(b) Reject the image.
(c) Refine the image.
(d) Analyze the daringness of an image.

11. Who imagined a bird turning round to form its nest externally with its breast?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Robinet.
(c) Pare.
(d) Palissy.

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

13. The cooperative efforts of a blind shellfish and patron pea-crab exemplify what sort of behavior?
(a) Predatory.
(b) Poetic.
(c) Symbiotic.
(d) Rational.

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

15. The cynical character created by the poet Milosz reminisces where?
(a) In church.
(b) In a boat.
(c) In his palace.
(d) In a tree.