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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nests.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who claimed that only the image can keep up with the changes of nature?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Bachelard.
(c) Vlaminck.
(d) Pasternak.

2. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) It inspires the poetic spirit.
(b) It represents forgotten memories.
(c) It has more to see and experience than an open chest.
(d) It represents the human need for secrecy and confinement.

3. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?
(a) Aesthetic value.
(b) Artistic value.
(c) Humanistic value.
(d) Phenomenological value.

4. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?
(a) The real estate market.
(b) The intricacies of architecture.
(c) The poetic imagination.
(d) The field of psychoanalysis.

5. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?
(a) Happy space that is eulogized and enjoyed.
(b) Fear of steep hillsides.
(c) The nature of a plot of land, whether flat or sloped.
(d) Fears related to a house's interior space.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?

2. Central to the author's main theme in "Nests," how does a simple image avoid intimidation?

3. How does Bachelard describe images that attribute human qualities to a nest?

4. To what iconic Van Gogh image does the author compare a bird's nest on the ground?

5. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?

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