The Poetics of Space Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Poetics of Space Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?
(a) A childhood home.
(b) A hermit's hut.
(c) A vacant house.
(d) A man dreaming of poetic imagery.

3. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?
(a) The idea of a painting.
(b) The idea of a house.
(c) Science.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

4. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Anthropo-cosmology.
(c) Homology.
(d) Poetry.

5. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?
(a) Objective irony.
(b) Poetic irony.
(c) Desire to move to a new house.
(d) Schizophrenia.

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

7. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Four, excluding cellar and attic.
(b) Two, including cellar and attic.
(c) Three, including cellar and attic.
(d) Four, including cellar and attic.

8. 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.

9. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) Its decor.
(b) Subjective feelings and dreams.
(c) The objects it contains.
(d) Subjective matters of taste and style.

10. 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 butterfly in a chrysalis.
(c) As a baby in a cradle.
(d) As a warning of death.

11. A woodpecker pecking in a tree can be compared to what in the author's continuing metaphor?
(a) A psychoanalyst probing the psyche.
(b) Annoying neighbors who create a disturbance.
(c) A poetic anomoly.
(d) A storm ravaging a house.

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

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

14. 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.

15. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?
(a) The refuge of the forest.
(b) The lover's nest.
(c) The magic of rainbows.
(d) Poetic imagery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a dream house for Bachelard?

3. What is a center of order in a house, according to Bachelard?

4. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?

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

(see the answer keys)

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