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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What are two opposing truths introduced by Bachelard in "Corners" regarding corners?
(a) Corners can be solid or weak.
(b) One can be at peace in a corner or can be cornered there.
(c) Corners can be real or imaginary.
(d) Corners can be clean or neglected.

5. According to Bachelard, what term can describe the emergence of being through poetry and contemplation of poetic immensity?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Calm.
(c) Death.
(d) Psychic transformation.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a phenomenologist observes an extravagant daydream, what does the psychoanalyst see?

2. Bachelard theorizes that an observer must pass through what sort of threshold to experience an inversion of perspective?

3. Bachelard believes that philosophers are condemned by their equals to live on which floor of a house, metaphorically speaking?

4. Which is the best description of Diole?

5. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the age of a forest compare with the ages of fields and meadows according to Bachelard's theory put forth in "Intimate Immensity"?

2. How are the hermit crab and cuckoo bird similar?

3. In the mind of Bachelard, what is the dichotomy of the corner?

4. Why did Diole, an expert on under-sea life, write about the desert?

5. What is the human intimacy associated with corners as described by the author in "Corners"?

6. In what way might a poet surprise an intellectual philosopher according to Bachelard?

7. How do a psychologist and a phenomenologist differ when viewing a poetic image in Bachelard's opinion?

8. How does Valery's knowledge of geometry fail him in regard to spiral shells?

9. With regard to metaphoric levels of existence, Bachelard theorizes that poets differ from philosophers in what way?

10. What two fears are contrasted by Michaux that may coexist even though they are opposites?

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