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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which French scholar envisioned a fortress town based on the spiral design of shells?
(a) Palissy.
(b) Robinet.
(c) Bachelard.
(d) Michelet.

3. 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 hollows out its nest by using its breast.
(c) The cuckoo builds its nest on the ground.
(d) The cuckoo builds its nest below ground, creating an ultra-cellar.

4. Outside and inside space are like a mixture of what two concepts, in the opinion of the author?
(a) Being and nothingness.
(b) Life and death.
(c) Cold and heat.
(d) Past and future.

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

6. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?
(a) A dog.
(b) A cat.
(c) Man.
(d) A snail.

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

8. Sartre was struck by what realization of Hughes's literary character, Emily?
(a) She was the universe.
(b) She was she.
(c) She was a poet.
(d) She was an invented child.

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

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

11. What does Bachelard say makes miniatures of all things seen?
(a) Consideration of the nest and the shell.
(b) Thoughts of the universe's infiniteness.
(c) Thoughts of death and afterlife.
(d) Distance to the horizon.

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

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

14. Contrary to the intellectual philosopher, states Bachelard, a poet may use words in what way?
(a) For rhythm and rhyme, rather than meaning.
(b) To create false illusions.
(c) To describe the origins of man.
(d) For sensitivity rather than precision.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for the fear of open space?

2. As theorized by the author, forests come from a past, but what forms of vegetation are in the present?

3. What does every corner or angle in a house symbolize for Bachelard?

4. What idea, prevalent in novels, did Sartre seek to illuminate?

5. Bachelard believes that what must flow within in order to appreciate the dream process?

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