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

2. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?
(a) Poetic phenomenology is always of the future.
(b) It is too easily used and explains nothing.
(c) It creates a confusion of familial memories.
(d) It casts a pall of oldness and staleness over a poetic image.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the opinion of Bachelard, moves the dreamer into the world of infinity?

2. Ammonite shells spiral around what sort of axis?

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

4. An inversion of perspective takes us where according to Bachelard?

5. Bachelard theorizes that an observer must pass through what sort of threshold to experience an inversion of perspective?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Robinet's theory of ontogenesis?

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

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

4. What is the nature of Palissy's fortess?

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

6. What is the human intimacy associated with corners as described by the author in "Corners"?

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

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

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

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

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