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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. What is contained within Milosz's corners?
(a) Cobwebs.
(b) Poetic images.
(c) Memories of childhood.
(d) Objects remembered by a dreamer in solitude.

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

3. What image does Bachelard propose to give a door sacred character?
(a) A mythical threshold god.
(b) An elaborate molding.
(c) Opaque peep holes.
(d) Elaborate locks and keys.

4. Which French scholar envisioned a fortress town based on the spiral design of shells?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Palissy.
(c) Robinet.
(d) Bachelard.

5. In Bachelard's topoanalysis, in which level of a house does common sense live?
(a) Stairways.
(b) The cellar.
(c) The ground floor.
(d) The attic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unique about the nesting behavior of the cuckoo?

2. Ammonite shells spiral around what sort of axis?

3. 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?

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

5. While a phenomenologist accepts a poetic image, what will a psychologist do in the opinion of Bachelard?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Diole, an expert on under-sea life, write about the desert?

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

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

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

6. 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"?

7. In the opinion of Bachelard, how do dreams of the shell affect the mind? What Baltrusaitis notion illustrates this effect?

8. Through poetry, in the mind of Bachelard, what does calm become?

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

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

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