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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. What does every corner or angle in a house symbolize for Bachelard?

2. The cooperative efforts of a blind shellfish and patron pea-crab exemplify what sort of behavior?

3. Ammonite shells spiral around what sort of axis?

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

5. In the work of Milosz, how did he indicate that corners are not always safe?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why does Bachelard feel the need to dephilosophize and undo psychoanalysis in order to take a fresh approach to the process of imagination?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What is the ontology, or beingness, of a poetic image? Why does Bachelard choose to consider only the poetic image in the scope of "The Poetics of Space," even though he acknowledges that it is the least significant part of a poem?

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