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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. How is Tom Thumb's influence transposed into the sky?

2. Who imagined a snail rolling over and over to form its shell internally?

3. As theorized by the author, forests come from a past, but what forms of vegetation are in the present?

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

5. Details and insignificant features, such as the curve of a molding, may inspire what, according to Bachelard?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Bachelard's view of cellars and cellar fears as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut." How does he use the works of Bosco and Poe to reinforce his view?

Essay Topic 2

In "Miniature," what does Bachelard mean when he states that miniatures are not just smaller large things? Consider views through a magnifying glass.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of the struggle of Bosco's "La Redousse" against the menagerie of the hurricane. Why does Bachelin consider winter to be the oldest season reminding us of remote past? In "House and Universe," what does Bachelard state is the relationship between a house and the universe?

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