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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?
(a) The spoken word.
(b) Image.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Poetry.

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

4. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?
(a) The soul cannot be at peace unless residing in the childhood home.
(b) Dates of events are more important than the sense of where they occur.
(c) When a house is torn down, the memories fade.
(d) Dates of events are less important than the sense of where they occur.

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

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

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

8. What is a commitment of the soul according to the author?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Death.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) Shelter.

9. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?
(a) In criminal cellars.
(b) In dark attics.
(c) In childhood homes.
(d) In the imagination.

10. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?
(a) The storm cloud.
(b) Animal life.
(c) The hurricane.
(d) Human existence.

11. How is a nest connected to the foliage of the forest according to the author?
(a) It is hidden by the foliage, and constructed from the foliage.
(b) Both inspire daydreaming and poetry.
(c) A nest is at the mercy of surrounding foliage during windstorms.
(d) Both are wonders of nature.

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

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

14. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?
(a) In the winter.
(b) In the countryside.
(c) In the summer.
(d) In cities.

15. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Music.
(c) Emerging from one's home to experience the world.
(d) Poetry or daydreaming.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?

3. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?

4. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?

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

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