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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. Bachelard prefers to use the term "vast" to describe what?
(a) The variety of words and meanings.
(b) The infinity of intimate space.
(c) The language of poets.
(d) Intimate meaning, including synthesis, perspective, unity and movement.

2. As theorized by the author, forests come from a past, but what forms of vegetation are in the present?
(a) Seedlings and sprouts.
(b) Individual trees.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Fields and meadows.

3. What is able to invent forms emerging from shells that are beyond scientific research according to Bachelard's theories based on the work of Baltrusaitis?
(a) The imagination.
(b) Faith.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) The mollusk.

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

5. How does Tom Thumb's stature become believable?
(a) When seen through a magnifying glass.
(b) Via words in the pages of a book.
(c) When described relative to a grain of dust.
(d) Via personal experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard believes that, for Baudelaire, immensity is a category of what?

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

3. What does a phenomenologist look for?

4. How do psychoanalysts refer to the duality of self?

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. As described by the author in "Miniature," how is any new phenomenon first viewed, when seen through a magnifying glass?

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

6. What is Robinet's theory of ontogenesis?

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

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

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

10. For Bachelard, what occurs when a person allows himself to pass a threshold of absurdity?

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