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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bachelard believes that what must flow within in order to appreciate the dream process?
(a) Humility.
(b) Ontology.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Topophilia.

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

3. According to the author, what sort of thought entails "either/or" with no middle ground?
(a) Phenomenology.
(b) Ontology.
(c) Scientific thought.
(d) Memory.

4. What is the term for the fear of open space?
(a) Agoraphobia.
(b) Hydrophobia.
(c) Arachnophobia.
(d) Claustrophobia.

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

6. 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 matter of scientific observation.
(c) A revelation of never-before-seen flaws.
(d) A miniature universe.

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

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

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

10. For Bachelard, what allows language to return to free-form expression without old hardened metaphors?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Lack of inhibition.
(c) Recalled memory.
(d) Phenomenology.

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

12. Valery's knowledge of geometry failed him in what regard?
(a) The ability to understand how the earth circumnavigates the sun.
(b) The ability to understand why a mollusk coils to the left or to the right.
(c) The ability to understand the scope of nature.
(d) The ability to understand how a bird constructs a circular nest.

13. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?
(a) The hut.
(b) The human body that encases the soul like an envelope.
(c) The origin of man.
(d) The creation of earth.

14. A corner is a half-box between what two entities as described by Bachelard?
(a) Inside and outside.
(b) Freedom and entrapment.
(c) Flat and three-dimensional.
(d) Vertical and horizontal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to Bachelard, sees everything as small from atop their towers of domination?

2. Baudelaire used the term "vast" to describe what?

3. Sartre was struck by what realization of Hughes's literary character, Emily?

4. How does Tom Thumb's stature become believable?

5. 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?

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