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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. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?
(a) As a warning of death.
(b) As a butterfly in a chrysalis.
(c) As a universal child from centuries earlier.
(d) As a baby in a cradle.

2. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?
(a) Relax at home.
(b) Establish a metaphysics of the imagination.
(c) Understand causality.
(d) Study psychoanalysis.

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

4. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?
(a) Poetic irony.
(b) Objective irony.
(c) Desire to move to a new house.
(d) Schizophrenia.

5. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?
(a) The structure of a house.
(b) Isolated poetic images.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) The structure of a poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. For psychoanalysts, what do conflicted locks and keys in dreams symbolize?

2. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

3. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?

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

5. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is a house for a phenomenologist?

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

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