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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the work of Milosz, how did he indicate that corners are not always safe?
(a) Corners are pointy when inverted.
(b) Corners are sometimes hiding places.
(c) Corners can be hard and cold.
(d) Corners are sometimes bug-filled.

2. Who often ignores the miniature worlds and objects in fairy tales in the author's opinion?
(a) Bachelard.
(b) Poets.
(c) Philosophers and psychologists.
(d) Children.

3. 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.

4. According to the author, what sort of thought entails "either/or" with no middle ground?
(a) Phenomenology.
(b) Memory.
(c) Ontology.
(d) Scientific thought.

5. What is forgotten by Milosz's cynical character?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Recent happy times.
(c) Everything.
(d) Childhood memories.

6. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?
(a) The creation of earth.
(b) The hut.
(c) The origin of man.
(d) The human body that encases the soul like an envelope.

7. According to Bachelard, what term can describe the emergence of being through poetry and contemplation of poetic immensity?
(a) Death.
(b) Psychic transformation.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Calm.

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

9. Where is the character, Emily, when she recognizes that she has withdrawn into herself?
(a) A boat.
(b) Her palace.
(c) Climbing a tree.
(d) Her childhood home.

10. Who imagined a snail rolling over and over to form its shell internally?
(a) Robinet.
(b) Palissy.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Pare.

11. In Bachelard's topoanalysis, in which level of a house does common sense live?
(a) The cellar.
(b) The attic.
(c) The ground floor.
(d) Stairways.

12. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?
(a) A dog.
(b) Man.
(c) A cat.
(d) A snail.

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

14. What is the term for the fear of open space?
(a) Arachnophobia.
(b) Claustrophobia.
(c) Agoraphobia.
(d) Hydrophobia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A corner is a half-box between what two entities as described by Bachelard?

2. Who used a tree to evoke a sense of grandeur that magnifies to the tree's surroundings?

3. For Bachelard, what does the metaphor of old forests that go on without limit represent?

4. According to Valery, how does a mollusk build?

5. Bachelard cites Michaux's poem "Shade-Haunted Space" to illustrate what?

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