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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?
(a) Art.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Reverberation.
(d) Causality.

4. 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.

5. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?
(a) All the ways in which an individual inhabits his vital space.
(b) The spiritual flow between rooms and levels.
(c) Paranormal presences.
(d) Drafty places which lead to pheumonia and other respiratory complaints.

Short Answer Questions

1. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?

2. What is a dream house for Bachelard?

3. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?

4. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?

5. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?

Short Essay Questions

1. What, according to Bachelard, is the homology that exists between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy?

2. How does Victor Hugo's character, Quasimodo, describe Notre Dame Cathedral? What functions do his feelings represent?

3. How did Bosco alter Bergson's drawer metaphor?

4. What does Baudelaire note, with regard to houses and the weather?

5. Why does Bachelard claim that daydreams of nests start us dreaming of security?

6. What is topophilia, according to Bachelard?

7. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphorical use of the drawer?

8. What is the significance of the wardrobe in relation to a house as described by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes"?

9. How are old homes and nests similar according to Bachelard?

10. After years of study as a scientist, Bachelard shifted his attention to what new reality?

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