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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. A corner is a half-box between what two entities as described by Bachelard?
(a) Freedom and entrapment.
(b) Flat and three-dimensional.
(c) Vertical and horizontal.
(d) Inside and outside.

2. While a phenomenologist accepts a poetic image, what will a psychologist do in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Refine the image.
(b) Analyze the daringness of an image.
(c) Analyze the origins of an image.
(d) Reject the image.

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

4. How is Tom Thumb killed?
(a) By the kick of an ant.
(b) By a snail.
(c) By the footsteps of a larger man.
(d) By a grain of dust.

5. Ammonite shells spiral around what sort of axis?
(a) Logarithmic.
(b) Geometric.
(c) Rectangular.
(d) Circular.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?

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

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

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

5. According to Bachelard, what term can describe the emergence of being through poetry and contemplation of poetic immensity?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

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

5. How do a psychologist and a phenomenologist differ when viewing a poetic image in Bachelard's opinion?

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

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

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

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

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

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