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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who imagined a bird turning round to form its nest externally with its breast?
(a) Palissy.
(b) Robinet.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Pare.

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

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

6. Why did Diole study and write about the desert?
(a) To wander in the desert is to change space and enter a psychically innovative one.
(b) To get lost in the desert is to experience the loss of childhood memories.
(c) To wander in the desert is to experience the poetic imagery of life.
(d) To get lost in the desert is to be a snail out of its shell.

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

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

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

10. When a phenomenologist observes an extravagant daydream, what does the psychoanalyst see?
(a) Anthropo-cosmology.
(b) Ontogenesis.
(c) Sexually-obsessed behavior.
(d) Oneiric behavior.

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

12. How do psychoanalysts refer to the duality of self?
(a) Introvert and extrovert.
(b) Poet and scientist.
(c) Contained and universal.
(d) Open and closed.

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

14. 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?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Faith.
(c) The imagination.
(d) The mollusk.

15. How does Tom Thumb's stature become believable?
(a) Via words in the pages of a book.
(b) Via personal experience.
(c) When described relative to a grain of dust.
(d) When seen through a magnifying glass.

Short Answer Questions

1. After fish swim into the shell of the shellfish, what does the pea-crab do?

2. As explained by Bachelard, why do the terms inside and outside not represent symmetrical realities?

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

4. In what way for Bachelard do fantasy images have some objectivity?

5. What are two opposing truths introduced by Bachelard in "Corners" regarding corners?

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