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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is Tom Thumb killed?
(a) By a snail.
(b) By the footsteps of a larger man.
(c) By the kick of an ant.
(d) By a grain of dust.

3. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?
(a) It creates a confusion of familial memories.
(b) It is too easily used and explains nothing.
(c) Poetic phenomenology is always of the future.
(d) It casts a pall of oldness and staleness over a poetic image.

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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 builds its nest on the ground.
(d) The cuckoo lays its eggs in a foreign nest when the mother is away, so that mother will hatch the cuckoo eggs.

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

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

11. Contrary to the intellectual philosopher, states Bachelard, a poet may use words in what way?
(a) For sensitivity rather than precision.
(b) To describe the origins of man.
(c) For rhythm and rhyme, rather than meaning.
(d) To create false illusions.

12. Bachelard believes that philosophers are condemned by their equals to live on which floor of a house, metaphorically speaking?
(a) The attic.
(b) The cellar.
(c) The ground floor.
(d) Stairways.

13. As theorized by the author, forests come from a past, but what forms of vegetation are in the present?
(a) Individual trees.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Fields and meadows.
(d) Seedlings and sprouts.

14. For Bachelard, what allows language to return to free-form expression without old hardened metaphors?
(a) Phenomenology.
(b) Lack of inhibition.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Recalled memory.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Bachelard say makes miniatures of all things seen?

4. What, in the opinion of Bachelard, moves the dreamer into the world of infinity?

5. Sartre was struck by what realization of Hughes's literary character, Emily?

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