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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. How does Bachelard refer to words?
(a) Little houses with their own sense of space.
(b) Locked boxes filled with mysteries.
(c) Shells that conceal identies.
(d) Leaves in an endless forest.

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

3. For Bachelard, what is amusing about space images?
(a) All complications can be eliminated from consideration.
(b) Space images evoke childhood happiness.
(c) Space images represent impossibilities.
(d) Poetic space images of today become the reality of tomorrow.

4. Who used a tree to evoke a sense of grandeur that magnifies to the tree's surroundings?
(a) Milosz.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Diole.
(d) Rilke.

5. 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) The mollusk.
(d) Spirituality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does every corner or angle in a house symbolize for Bachelard?

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

3. What does Bachelard define as a coherent way to use reasoning to convincingly express primal images?

4. Who imagined a bird turning round to form its nest externally with its breast?

5. For Bachelard, what is the dichotomy of doors?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Paris manage to make the tiny stature of Tom Thumb seem believable?

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

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

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

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

7. What is Robinet's theory of ontogenesis?

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

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

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

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