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

2. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?
(a) Superimposed boxes.
(b) Ultra-boxes.
(c) Ultra-cellars.
(d) Superimposed cellars.

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

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

5. Which level of a house is protected with strong beams and rafters, and, states the author, has darkness that disappears in daylight?
(a) The attic.
(b) Every level.
(c) The cellar.
(d) The main living area.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?

2. How did Bosco transform Bergson's drawer metaphor?

3. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?

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

5. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the symbolism associated with a hermit's hut, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut"?

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

3. As stated by the author in "House and Universe," what is the significance of old houses one used to live in?

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

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

6. How does Pasternak describe a nest?

7. What, according to Bachelard, is a dream house?

8. How does Bachelard describe oneiric houses?

9. What is a house for a phenomenologist?

10. How do poets, psychologists, and psychoanalysts differ in their views of locks and closed boxes in the opinion of Bachelard?

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