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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bachelard refer to words?
(a) Little houses with their own sense of space.
(b) Shells that conceal identies.
(c) Leaves in an endless forest.
(d) Locked boxes filled with mysteries.

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

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

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

5. In what way for Bachelard do fantasy images have some objectivity?
(a) From a belief in supernatural presences.
(b) From a sense of past lives.
(c) From a degree of shared phenomenological similarity.
(d) From a sense of shared experience.

6. Bachelard believes that philosophers are condemned by their equals to live on which floor of a house, metaphorically speaking?
(a) Stairways.
(b) The cellar.
(c) The ground floor.
(d) The attic.

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

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

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

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

11. Where is the character, Emily, when she recognizes that she has withdrawn into herself?
(a) Her palace.
(b) Climbing a tree.
(c) A boat.
(d) Her childhood home.

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

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

14. For Bachelard, what does the metaphor of old forests that go on without limit represent?
(a) Man's search deep within.
(b) Immortality.
(c) A search for fantasy.
(d) A yearning for the childhood house.

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

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

3. Why is a door ajar a quandary according to the author's perspective?

4. After fish swim into the shell of the shellfish, what does the pea-crab do?

5. Who often ignores the miniature worlds and objects in fairy tales in the author's opinion?

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