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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 a phenomenologist look for?
(a) Poetic inspiration.
(b) Observable facts or events.
(c) Sexually-obsessed behavior.
(d) New theories.

2. Who often ignores the miniature worlds and objects in fairy tales in the author's opinion?
(a) Children.
(b) Bachelard.
(c) Poets.
(d) Philosophers and psychologists.

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

4. According to Bachelard, what term can describe the emergence of being through poetry and contemplation of poetic immensity?
(a) Psychic transformation.
(b) Calm.
(c) Death.
(d) Insanity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After fish swim into the shell of the shellfish, what does the pea-crab do?

2. 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?

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

4. For Bachelard, what allows language to return to free-form expression without old hardened metaphors?

5. In many countries, insists the author, tiny-ness is the center of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Bachelard compares what images of nature put forward by Robinet and Michelet?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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