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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 is forgotten by Milosz's cynical character?
(a) Recent happy times.
(b) Childhood memories.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Everything.

2. Bachelard theorizes that an observer must pass through what sort of threshold to experience an inversion of perspective?
(a) A threshold of absurdity.
(b) A threshold from present to past.
(c) A threshold of a doorway.
(d) A threshold from metaphysics to psychology.

3. What does Bachelard say makes miniatures of all things seen?
(a) Distance to the horizon.
(b) Thoughts of death and afterlife.
(c) Consideration of the nest and the shell.
(d) Thoughts of the universe's infiniteness.

4. Bachelard believes that what must flow within in order to appreciate the dream process?
(a) Humility.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Ontology.
(d) Topophilia.

5. In Bachelard's topoanalysis, in which level of a house does common sense live?
(a) The attic.
(b) Stairways.
(c) The cellar.
(d) The ground floor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What is the paradox of an old forest, as explained by the author?

5. Bachelard proposes that a person's time, speech, and very being are affected by what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Diole, an expert on under-sea life, write about the desert?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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