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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Sartre was struck by what realization of Hughes's literary character, Emily?

4. A corner is a half-box between what two entities as described by Bachelard?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is Robinet's theory of ontogenesis?

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

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

9. In what way might a poet surprise an intellectual philosopher according to Bachelard?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What or who are the five characters of type created by Bachelard in "The Poetics of Space"? What is his motivation for creating each character? Why does he not feature a character known as "The Scientist"?

Essay Topic 2

What is Baudelaire's interpretation of the concept of "vast" as explained in "Intimate Immensity"? How and why does Bachelard disagree with Baudelaire's interpretation?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Bachelard cite so many writers and great thinkers to shore up his theories rather than create his own isolated narrative? Is his need to cite authors for "evidence" a remnant of his scientifically-oriented mode of thinking? Is his technique successful?

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