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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. Who often ignores the miniature worlds and objects in fairy tales in the author's opinion?
(a) Philosophers and psychologists.
(b) Poets.
(c) Bachelard.
(d) Children.

2. Who created the tiny character Tom Thumb?
(a) Rilke.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Paris.
(d) Hugo.

3. Why did Diole study and write about the desert?
(a) To wander in the desert is to experience the poetic imagery of life.
(b) To get lost in the desert is to experience the loss of childhood memories.
(c) To wander in the desert is to change space and enter a psychically innovative one.
(d) To get lost in the desert is to be a snail out of its shell.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What enables a person to hear differently in the opinion of the author?

2. Who imagined a snail rolling over and over to form its shell internally?

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

4. For Bachelard, what does the metaphor of old forests that go on without limit represent?

5. What image does Bachelard propose to give a door sacred character?

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. Bachelard compares what images of nature put forward by Robinet and Michelet?

3. What does silence allow a person to do in the opinion of Bachelard?

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

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

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

7. As described by Bachelard, what is the forced-choice form of geometric reasoning associated with inside and outside that clouds metaphor?

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

9. What is the nature of Palissy's fortess?

10. For Milosz's cynical character, what is contained in the corners of the palace?

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