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

2. What are two opposing truths introduced by Bachelard in "Corners" regarding corners?
(a) Corners can be real or imaginary.
(b) One can be at peace in a corner or can be cornered there.
(c) Corners can be clean or neglected.
(d) Corners can be solid or weak.

3. Why does a conchologist classify shells?
(a) To determine the age of the planet.
(b) To better understand mollusks.
(c) To find the origin of creation.
(d) To discover diversity.

4. Who, according to Bachelard, sees everything as small from atop their towers of domination?
(a) Scientists.
(b) World leaders.
(c) Poets.
(d) Philosophers.

5. Which French scholar envisioned a fortress town based on the spiral design of shells?
(a) Robinet.
(b) Michelet.
(c) Palissy.
(d) Bachelard.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Bachelard, what is the dichotomy of doors?

2. What is unique about the nesting behavior of the cuckoo?

3. Who used a tree to evoke a sense of grandeur that magnifies to the tree's surroundings?

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

5. Bachelard believes that philosophers are condemned by their equals to live on which floor of a house, metaphorically speaking?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

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

5. Bachelard compares what images of nature put forward by Robinet and Michelet?

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

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

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

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

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

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