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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. In the opinion of Bachelard, a corner is a place of what sort of motion?
(a) Vertical and horizontal.
(b) Immobility.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Three-dimensional space.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?

3. What is unique about the nesting behavior of the cuckoo?

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

5. Poets, states Bachelard, use words to bring together what two entities?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Hughes character, Emily, reveal the concept of "invented childhood"?

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

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

4. In the opinion of Bachelard, how do dreams of the shell affect the mind? What Baltrusaitis notion illustrates this effect?

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

6. What effect does proximity to the horizon have on all things seen?

7. What is Robinet's theory of ontogenesis?

8. 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"?

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

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

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