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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The cynical character created by the poet Milosz reminisces where?
(a) In a tree.
(b) In his palace.
(c) In church.
(d) In a boat.

2. For Bachelard, what is the dichotomy of doors?
(a) Doors invite inside, but also shut out.
(b) Open doors function as windows.
(c) Doors can be opened into the world of men or into the world of solitude.
(d) Doors ajar offer no protection, no matter how solidly built.

3. In the words of Bachelard, a mollusk that weighs fourteen pounds but with a shell that weighs five hundred or more pounds can be described in what way?
(a) A metaphor.
(b) A miracle.
(c) An impossibility.
(d) An immense dream of nature.

4. What enables a person to hear differently in the opinion of the author?
(a) Learning a foreign language.
(b) Closing his eyes.
(c) Studying metaphysics.
(d) Learning the language of poetry.

5. How is Tom Thumb's influence transposed into the sky?
(a) His name was given to a star within the Little Dipper constellation.
(b) His spirit lives within the sun.
(c) His name was given to the small star that drives the Grand Chariot or Great Bear constellation.
(d) His name was given to a moon of Saturn.

6. What are two opposing truths introduced by Bachelard in "Corners" regarding corners?
(a) Corners can be solid or weak.
(b) One can be at peace in a corner or can be cornered there.
(c) Corners can be real or imaginary.
(d) Corners can be clean or neglected.

7. A corner is a half-box between what two entities as described by Bachelard?
(a) Flat and three-dimensional.
(b) Inside and outside.
(c) Vertical and horizontal.
(d) Freedom and entrapment.

8. What does every corner or angle in a house symbolize for Bachelard?
(a) Impassable boundaries.
(b) Solitude for the imagination.
(c) Memories lost in cobwebs.
(d) Blocked thought.

9. Why does a conchologist classify shells?
(a) To discover diversity.
(b) To find the origin of creation.
(c) To determine the age of the planet.
(d) To better understand mollusks.

10. What is unique about the nesting behavior of the cuckoo?
(a) The cuckoo hollows out its nest by using its breast.
(b) The cuckoo builds its nest below ground, creating an ultra-cellar.
(c) The cuckoo lays its eggs in a foreign nest when the mother is away, so that mother will hatch the cuckoo eggs.
(d) The cuckoo builds its nest on the ground.

11. What, in the opinion of Bachelard, moves the dreamer into the world of infinity?
(a) Phenomenology.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Immensity.
(d) Boundaries.

12. The cooperative efforts of a blind shellfish and patron pea-crab exemplify what sort of behavior?
(a) Predatory.
(b) Symbiotic.
(c) Poetic.
(d) Rational.

13. Bachelard cites Michaux's poem "Shade-Haunted Space" to illustrate what?
(a) Man is a surface being.
(b) Man is a half-open being.
(c) The significance of unuttered words and unfulfilled intentions.
(d) Geometric reasoning.

14. Bachelard believes that, for Baudelaire, immensity is a category of what?
(a) Past and present.
(b) Poetic imagination.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Memories.

15. What does Bachelard define as a coherent way to use reasoning to convincingly express primal images?
(a) A shell.
(b) A house.
(c) A fairy tale.
(d) A realistic painting or drawing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the tiny character Tom Thumb?

2. Outside and inside space are like a mixture of what two concepts, in the opinion of the author?

3. What is able to invent forms emerging from shells that are beyond scientific research according to Bachelard's theories based on the work of Baltrusaitis?

4. What is the term for the fear of open space?

5. Bachelard prefers to use the term "vast" to describe what?

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