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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who claimed that only the image can keep up with the changes of nature?
(a) Bachelard.
(b) Vlaminck.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Pasternak.

2. Bachelard proposes that a person's time, speech, and very being are affected by what?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Silence.
(d) Death.

3. What does Bachelard say makes miniatures of all things seen?
(a) Thoughts of death and afterlife.
(b) Thoughts of the universe's infiniteness.
(c) Distance to the horizon.
(d) Consideration of the nest and the shell.

4. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?
(a) House and home.
(b) Poetry and science.
(c) Unity and complexity.
(d) Height and width.

5. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?
(a) When it is assailed by elements of nature.
(b) When it is immortalized by a poet.
(c) When a new family moves in.
(d) When it is vacant.

Short Answer Questions

1. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?

2. How is a nest connected to the foliage of the forest according to the author?

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

4. How is Tom Thumb killed?

5. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

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