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

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

3. What is unique about the nesting behavior of the cuckoo?
(a) The cuckoo builds its nest on the ground.
(b) The cuckoo lays its eggs in a foreign nest when the mother is away, so that mother will hatch the cuckoo eggs.
(c) The cuckoo hollows out its nest by using its breast.
(d) The cuckoo builds its nest below ground, creating an ultra-cellar.

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

5. Poets, states Bachelard, use words to bring together what two entities?
(a) Individual and universe.
(b) Earth and sky.
(c) Inside and outside.
(d) Past and present.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the term for the fear of open space?

4. How do psychoanalysts refer to the duality of self?

5. Bachelard theorizes that an observer must pass through what sort of threshold to experience an inversion of perspective?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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"?

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

7. How are the hermit crab and cuckoo bird similar?

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

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

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

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