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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 does Bachelard define as a coherent way to use reasoning to convincingly express primal images?

3. According to the author, the cuckoo can be compared with which water creature?

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

5. When a phenomenologist observes an extravagant daydream, what does the psychoanalyst see?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. As described by the author in "Miniature," how is any new phenomenon first viewed, when seen through a magnifying glass?

3. What is Robinet's theory of ontogenesis?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As mentioned in "Introduction," discuss the distinct viewpoints of The Poet and The Phenomenologist (capitalized to indicate their stature as characters of type in "The Poetics of Space"), as contrasted with Bachelard's own former identity, the scientist?

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

As expressed in "The Dialectics of Outside and Inside," how are outside space and inside space like a mixture of being and nothingness? How, according to Michaux, can claustrophobia and agoraphobia occur simultaneously even though they are opposites?

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