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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 Bachelard's topoanalysis, in which level of a house does common sense live?
(a) The attic.
(b) Stairways.
(c) The ground floor.
(d) The cellar.

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

3. In many countries, insists the author, tiny-ness is the center of what?
(a) An invitation to daydream.
(b) A return to childhood.
(c) Decision over the great.
(d) Inadequacy.

4. 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) Via personal experience.
(d) When seen through a magnifying glass.

5. Bachelard believes that philosophers are condemned by their equals to live on which floor of a house, metaphorically speaking?
(a) The attic.
(b) The ground floor.
(c) The cellar.
(d) Stairways.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the paradox of an old forest, as explained by the author?

2. Bachelard cites Michaux's poem "Shade-Haunted Space" to illustrate what?

3. As explained by Bachelard, why do the terms inside and outside not represent symmetrical realities?

4. Who imagined a bird turning round to form its nest externally with its breast?

5. According to the author, what sort of thought entails "either/or" with no middle ground?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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