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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bachelard describe images that attribute human qualities to a nest?
(a) Childish.
(b) Obvious.
(c) Astute.
(d) Inane.

2. What is another word for ontology?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Beingness.
(d) Causality.

3. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Externalities, that which we say.
(b) Externalities, that which we hear.
(c) Internalities, that which we hear.
(d) Internalities, that which we say.

4. The painter, Vlaminck, compared the contentment of humans to what?
(a) The security of a chrysalis.
(b) The majesty of a cathedral.
(c) The security of a snail shell.
(d) The refuge a rat finds in his hole or a rabbit in his burrow.

5. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(b) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.
(c) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.
(d) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which level of a house is protected with strong beams and rafters, and, states the author, has darkness that disappears in daylight?

2. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?

3. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?

4. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?

5. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?

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