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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bachelard theorizes that dreams of nests inspire what?
(a) A desire to have a home that opens to nature.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Dreams of security.
(d) Fear of flying.

2. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?
(a) Poetic irony.
(b) Lost intimacy.
(c) Memories lost in a filing cabinet.
(d) Abandonment.

3. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?
(a) To protect property.
(b) To shelter daydreaming.
(c) To create cities.
(d) To define boundaries.

4. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?
(a) Psychoanalyst.
(b) Poet.
(c) Architect.
(d) Scientist.

5. With what did Pasternak identify the nest?
(a) The childhood house.
(b) Nature.
(c) Poetry.
(d) The world and its center.

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

7. Victor Hugo's literary character, Quasimodo, described what as "egg, nest, house, country and universe"?
(a) Notre Dame Cathedral.
(b) Canterbury Cathedral.
(c) Aachen Cathedral.
(d) The Taj Mahal.

8. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?
(a) A child's drawing.
(b) A soul at peace.
(c) A poem.
(d) A flourishing nest.

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

10. Due to the intimacy of cherished objects, states Bachelard, housework can become what sort of activity?
(a) Creative.
(b) Recreational.
(c) Mundane.
(d) Group.

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

12. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?
(a) Daydream or contemplate.
(b) Build a dream house.
(c) Yearn for the childhood house.
(d) Cherish their own homes.

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

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

15. What is the ability to imagine?
(a) A major power of human nature.
(b) A waste of the intelligent mind.
(c) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.
(d) A symptom of mental illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?

2. What is a commitment of the soul according to the author?

3. For Bachelard, what do primal images of nests and shells offer to a person?

4. The painter, Vlaminck, compared the contentment of humans to what?

5. What does a metaphor present?

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