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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Rhythmic thoughts.
(b) A forgotten image.
(c) Appreciation for rhymes.
(d) Fear of isolation.

2. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?
(a) Every level.
(b) The sleeping level.
(c) The cellar.
(d) The attic.

3. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Quasimodo considered the cathedral to be claustrophobic, like a snail shell.
(b) Both are constructed of sturdy materials.
(c) Quasimodo inhabited the cathedral, with its nooks and crannies, as a snail inhabits its shell.
(d) Both seem born of their surroundings.

4. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Winter.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

5. How did Bosco transform Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) He claimed that the brain is more like a wardrobe with secret space.
(b) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet, but the filing cabinet is a brain.
(c) He claimed that the brain's filing cabinet is used only to file away memories that will be forgotton.
(d) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet but an unstructured jumble of information.

6. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?
(a) As a universal child from centuries earlier.
(b) As a baby in a cradle.
(c) As a warning of death.
(d) As a butterfly in a chrysalis.

7. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphor of drawers to describe the human brain?
(a) A chest of drawers is finite, while the brain's capacity is infinite.
(b) He wonders how reason determines which drawer should contain each new object.
(c) He wonders how objects would be retrieved from the drawers.
(d) Items get lost in drawers.

8. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?
(a) Isolated poetic images.
(b) Market value of art.
(c) The personality of the artist.
(d) Mental stability.

9. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Rarely, only to add complexity to a poem.
(b) Rarely, only when words are inadequate.
(c) Frequently, to stimulate creativity.
(d) Frequently, to add color and variety to expression.

10. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?
(a) Super-cellars.
(b) Ultra-towers.
(c) Mega-attics.
(d) Ultra-cellars.

11. For Bachelard, why is the inner space of a wardrobe an intimate space?
(a) Clothing is part of one's persona.
(b) Clothing reveals dreams.
(c) When closed, the inner space disappears.
(d) Not everyone sees it.

12. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?
(a) Pare.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Pasternak.
(d) Vlaminck.

13. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?
(a) Attic fears may be reasoned away.
(b) Attic fears take longer fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(c) Attic fears indicate childhood trauma.
(d) Attic fears indicate spiritual unrest.

14. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?
(a) Happy, with doorknobs and chimney smoke.
(b) Small and dark.
(c) A dream house.
(d) Cold, motionless, and rigid.

15. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?
(a) The psychoanalyst.
(b) The poet.
(c) The scientist.
(d) The architect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard theorizes that dreams of nests inspire what?

2. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?

3. What is a dream house for Bachelard?

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

5. What is the ability to imagine?

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