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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the eighteenth-century theory that states the purpose of life is to make shells?
(a) Homology.
(b) Ontology.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Ontogenesis.

2. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Anthropo-cosmology.
(d) Homology.

3. For psychoanalysts, what do conflicted locks and keys in dreams symbolize?
(a) Sexual intimacy.
(b) Temptations.
(c) Repression.
(d) New discoveries.

4. What is another word for ontology?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Beingness.
(d) Causality.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Tom Thumb's stature become believable?

3. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?

4. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?

5. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?

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