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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Miniature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Internalities, that which we hear.
(b) Internalities, that which we say.
(c) Externalities, that which we hear.
(d) Externalities, that which we say.

2. According to the author, the cuckoo can be compared with which water creature?
(a) The mollusk.
(b) The shellfish.
(c) The hermit crab.
(d) The pea-crab.

3. How did Bosco transform Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet, but the filing cabinet is a brain.
(b) He claimed that the brain is more like a wardrobe with secret space.
(c) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet but an unstructured jumble of information.
(d) He claimed that the brain's filing cabinet is used only to file away memories that will be forgotton.

4. In the opinion of Bachelard, a corner is a place of what sort of motion?
(a) Vertical and horizontal.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Immobility.
(d) Three-dimensional space.

5. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?
(a) Winter.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bachelard believe is an antidote for claustrophobia?

2. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?

3. Who often ignores the miniature worlds and objects in fairy tales in the author's opinion?

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

5. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?

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