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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 created the tiny character Tom Thumb?
(a) Paris.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Hugo.

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

3. Through a magnifying glass, what does the first view of any phenomenon become in the author's opinion?
(a) A matter of scientific observation.
(b) A miniature universe.
(c) A revelation of never-before-seen flaws.
(d) A disruption of poetic thought.

4. According to the author, the cuckoo can be compared with which water creature?
(a) The pea-crab.
(b) The mollusk.
(c) The shellfish.
(d) The hermit crab.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Outside and inside space are like a mixture of what two concepts, in the opinion of the author?

2. Ammonite shells spiral around what sort of axis?

3. A corner is a half-box between what two entities as described by Bachelard?

4. Sartre was struck by what realization of Hughes's literary character, Emily?

5. While a phenomenologist accepts a poetic image, what will a psychologist do in the opinion of Bachelard?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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