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

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

3. How is Tom Thumb killed?
(a) By a grain of dust.
(b) By a snail.
(c) By the kick of an ant.
(d) By the footsteps of a larger man.

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

5. Bachelard cites Michaux's poem "Shade-Haunted Space" to illustrate what?
(a) Man is a half-open being.
(b) The significance of unuttered words and unfulfilled intentions.
(c) Man is a surface being.
(d) Geometric reasoning.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Who, according to Bachelard, sees everything as small from atop their towers of domination?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the human intimacy associated with corners as described by the author in "Corners"?

3. 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"?

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

5. Through poetry, in the mind of Bachelard, what does calm become?

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

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

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

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

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

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