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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. In the opinion of Bachelard, a corner is a place of what sort of motion?
(a) Vertical and horizontal.
(b) Three-dimensional space.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Immobility.

2. Bachelard proposes that a person's time, speech, and very being are affected by what?
(a) Solitude.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Death.
(d) Silence.

3. An inversion of perspective takes us where according to Bachelard?
(a) To a rejection of scientific thought.
(b) To the horizon where everything appears smaller.
(c) To the future where all is possible.
(d) Back to childhood with the reality of toys.

4. For Bachelard, what allows language to return to free-form expression without old hardened metaphors?
(a) Phenomenology.
(b) Recalled memory.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Lack of inhibition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The cooperative efforts of a blind shellfish and patron pea-crab exemplify what sort of behavior?

2. According to the author, the cuckoo can be compared with which water creature?

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

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

5. According to Valery, how does a mollusk build?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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"?

7. For Bachelard, what occurs when a person allows himself to pass a threshold of absurdity?

8. In folklore and poetry, according to Bachelard's theory, in what way does image size transpose?

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

10. What is Robinet's theory of ontogenesis?

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