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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. Contrary to the intellectual philosopher, states Bachelard, a poet may use words in what way?
(a) For sensitivity rather than precision.
(b) To describe the origins of man.
(c) To create false illusions.
(d) For rhythm and rhyme, rather than meaning.

2. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?
(a) A dog.
(b) A snail.
(c) Man.
(d) A cat.

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

4. According to the author, what sort of thought entails "either/or" with no middle ground?
(a) Memory.
(b) Phenomenology.
(c) Scientific thought.
(d) Ontology.

5. As experienced by Bachelard, who sees only negative sublimation?
(a) The psychoanalyst.
(b) The poet.
(c) The scientist.
(d) The psychologist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Tom Thumb's stature become believable?

3. In the work of Milosz, how did he indicate that corners are not always safe?

4. Who lives in the new that guides the phenomenologist in Bachelard's opinion?

5. What, in the opinion of Bachelard, moves the dreamer into the world of infinity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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