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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 inspires the poetic spirit.
(d) It represents the human need for secrecy and confinement.

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

3. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?
(a) Create deceptions.
(b) Lead to future discovery.
(c) Make the world get along better.
(d) Maintain secrecy.

4. For Bachelard, what do primal images of nests and shells offer to a person?
(a) They offer a cure for claustrophobia.
(b) They offer freedom to create poetry.
(c) They allow a person safe and pleasurable withdrawal into his corner.
(d) They suggest a return to the womb.

5. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?
(a) Rules of logic.
(b) Rules of the marketplace.
(c) Rules of household order.
(d) Rules of grammar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?

2. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?

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

4. Central to the author's main theme in "Nests," how does a simple image avoid intimidation?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. As explained by Bachelard, what is the beingness, or ontology, of the poetic image?

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

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

4. Why does Bachelard focus on the isolated poetic image, even though it is the least significant element in the composition of a poem?

5. How does Bachelard describe oneiric houses?

6. What is topoanalysis, according to Bachelard, with regard to a house and its hidden memories?

7. What is the anthropo-cosmology of a house as described by Bachelard?

8. How do cellar fears differ from attic fears, based on Bachelard's theories in "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut"?

9. What is "La Redousse?"

10. What is the difference between image and metaphor, for Bachelard?

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