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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While a phenomenologist accepts a poetic image, what will a psychologist do in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Refine the image.
(b) Analyze the origins of an image.
(c) Reject the image.
(d) Analyze the daringness of an image.

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

3. Ammonite shells spiral around what sort of axis?
(a) Circular.
(b) Geometric.
(c) Rectangular.
(d) Logarithmic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In folklore and poetry, as described by Bachelard, how is image size transposed?

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

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

4. How is Tom Thumb killed?

5. What is the paradox of an old forest, as explained by the author?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does silence allow a person to do in the opinion of Bachelard?

2. What is Robinet's theory of ontogenesis?

3. What is the nature of Palissy's fortess?

4. How does Paris manage to make the tiny stature of Tom Thumb seem believable?

5. In folklore and poetry, according to Bachelard's theory, in what way does image size transpose?

6. Bachelard compares what images of nature put forward by Robinet and Michelet?

7. For Milosz's cynical character, what is contained in the corners of the palace?

8. As described by Bachelard, what is the forced-choice form of geometric reasoning associated with inside and outside that clouds metaphor?

9. What two fears are contrasted by Michaux that may coexist even though they are opposites?

10. In what way might a poet surprise an intellectual philosopher according to Bachelard?

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