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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. How does Bachelard refer to words?
(a) Shells that conceal identies.
(b) Leaves in an endless forest.
(c) Locked boxes filled with mysteries.
(d) Little houses with their own sense of space.

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

3. What image does Bachelard propose to give a door sacred character?
(a) Opaque peep holes.
(b) An elaborate molding.
(c) Elaborate locks and keys.
(d) A mythical threshold god.

4. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?
(a) A cat.
(b) A snail.
(c) Man.
(d) A dog.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best description of Diole?

2. Who often ignores the miniature worlds and objects in fairy tales in the author's opinion?

3. What are two opposing truths introduced by Bachelard in "Corners" regarding corners?

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

5. Bachelard believes that what must flow within in order to appreciate the dream process?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. What is Robinet's theory of ontogenesis?

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

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

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

10. How does Paris manage to make the tiny stature of Tom Thumb seem believable?

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