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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. The cooperative efforts of a blind shellfish and patron pea-crab exemplify what sort of behavior?
2. Which is the best description of Diole?
3. Bachelard theorizes that an observer must pass through what sort of threshold to experience an inversion of perspective?
4. In folklore and poetry, as described by Bachelard, how is image size transposed?
5. After fish swim into the shell of the shellfish, what does the pea-crab do?
Short Essay Questions
1. In folklore and poetry, according to Bachelard's theory, in what way does image size transpose?
2. Why did Diole, an expert on under-sea life, write about the desert?
3. What is Robinet's theory of ontogenesis?
4. For Bachelard, what occurs when a person allows himself to pass a threshold of absurdity?
5. How does Paris manage to make the tiny stature of Tom Thumb seem believable?
6. How does the age of a forest compare with the ages of fields and meadows according to Bachelard's theory put forth in "Intimate Immensity"?
7. How does Valery's knowledge of geometry fail him in regard to spiral shells?
8. Bachelard compares what images of nature put forward by Robinet and Michelet?
9. In the opinion of Bachelard, how do dreams of the shell affect the mind? What Baltrusaitis notion illustrates this effect?
10. Through poetry, in the mind of Bachelard, what does calm become?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What is the main theme of "The Poetics of Space"? What main points are raised by Bachelard to support this theme?
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