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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dialectics of Outside and Inside.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the best description of Diole?
(a) Pnemonologist.
(b) Psychologist and ontologist of under-sea life.
(c) Poet and painter.
(d) Scientist and entrepreneur.

2. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?
(a) Baudelaire.
(b) Bachelard.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Bosco.

3. How does Tom Thumb's stature become believable?
(a) When seen through a magnifying glass.
(b) When described relative to a grain of dust.
(c) Via words in the pages of a book.
(d) Via personal experience.

4. How does Bachelard refer to words?
(a) Little houses with their own sense of space.
(b) Shells that conceal identies.
(c) Locked boxes filled with mysteries.
(d) Leaves in an endless forest.

5. Who lives in the new that guides the phenomenologist in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) The poet.
(b) The scientist.
(c) The psychologist.
(d) The psychoanalyst.

Short Answer Questions

1. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?

2. Poets, states Bachelard, use words to bring together what two entities?

3. The painter, Vlaminck, compared the contentment of humans to what?

4. While a phenomenologist accepts a poetic image, what will a psychologist do in the opinion of Bachelard?

5. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?

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