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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 lives in the new that guides the phenomenologist in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) The psychologist.
(b) The psychoanalyst.
(c) The scientist.
(d) The poet.

2. What does every corner or angle in a house symbolize for Bachelard?
(a) Blocked thought.
(b) Solitude for the imagination.
(c) Memories lost in cobwebs.
(d) Impassable boundaries.

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

4. In the work of Milosz, how did he indicate that corners are not always safe?
(a) Corners are sometimes hiding places.
(b) Corners can be hard and cold.
(c) Corners are pointy when inverted.
(d) Corners are sometimes bug-filled.

5. Why did Diole study and write about the desert?
(a) To get lost in the desert is to be a snail out of its shell.
(b) To wander in the desert is to experience the poetic imagery of life.
(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 experience the loss of childhood memories.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what sort of thought entails "either/or" with no middle ground?

2. Bachelard proposes that a person's time, speech, and very being are affected by what?

3. Where is the character, Emily, when she recognizes that she has withdrawn into herself?

4. What does Bachelard say makes miniatures of all things seen?

5. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Robinet's theory of ontogenesis?

4. What does Bachelard propose, to give a door sacred character? What is sacred about doors?

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

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

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

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

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

10. According to Bachelard, why do old forests offer inner peace?

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