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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. Bachelard believes that, for Baudelaire, immensity is a category of what?
(a) Poetic imagination.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Memories.
(d) Past and present.

2. According to Valery, how does a mollusk build?
(a) From the remains of old shells.
(b) From the inside as a living form.
(c) From an instinctive poetic vision.
(d) From outside, to enter later for protection.

3. Who lives in the new that guides the phenomenologist in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) The psychoanalyst.
(b) The psychologist.
(c) The poet.
(d) The scientist.

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

5. How do psychoanalysts refer to the duality of self?
(a) Contained and universal.
(b) Introvert and extrovert.
(c) Poet and scientist.
(d) Open and closed.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. Which is the best description of Diole?

4. What enables a person to hear differently in the opinion of the author?

5. Why does a conchologist classify shells?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is Robinet's theory of ontogenesis?

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