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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 objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) The objects it contains.
(b) Subjective feelings and dreams.
(c) Subjective matters of taste and style.
(d) Its decor.

2. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?
(a) A man dreaming of poetic imagery.
(b) A hermit's hut.
(c) A childhood home.
(d) A vacant house.

3. 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.

4. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?
(a) From the unnoticed chrysalis, the flamboyant butterfly flies.
(b) From the cottage chrysalis, the winged manor flies.
(c) From the childhood chrysalis, the butterfly moves to a new house.
(d) From the sturdy chrysalis, the delicate butterfly emerges.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?

2. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?

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

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

5. What does a metaphor present?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. For Bachelard, how is a nest connected with the foliage of the forest?

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

6. As theorized by Bachelard, what is the main benefit of a house, and what is the significance of the house one is born in?

7. 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"?

8. What is the concept of pure sublimation as put forth by Bachelard, and why is it useful?

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

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

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