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

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

3. Valery's knowledge of geometry failed him in what regard?
(a) The ability to understand why a mollusk coils to the left or to the right.
(b) The ability to understand how a bird constructs a circular nest.
(c) The ability to understand how the earth circumnavigates the sun.
(d) The ability to understand the scope of nature.

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

5. Who, according to Bachelard, sees everything as small from atop their towers of domination?
(a) Scientists.
(b) Poets.
(c) World leaders.
(d) Philosophers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the character, Emily, when she recognizes that she has withdrawn into herself?

2. What does Bachelard define as a coherent way to use reasoning to convincingly express primal images?

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

4. Why did Diole study and write about the desert?

5. Poets, states Bachelard, use words to bring together what two entities?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Bachelard, why do old forests offer inner peace?

2. With regard to metaphoric levels of existence, Bachelard theorizes that poets differ from philosophers in what way?

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

4. What effect does proximity to the horizon have on all things seen?

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

6. How does the Hughes character, Emily, reveal the concept of "invented childhood"?

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

8. What is the human intimacy associated with corners as described by the author in "Corners"?

9. How does the age of a forest compare with the ages of fields and meadows according to Bachelard's theory put forth in "Intimate Immensity"?

10. How does Valery's knowledge of geometry fail him in regard to spiral shells?

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