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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. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?
(a) A soul at peace.
(b) A poem.
(c) A child's drawing.
(d) A flourishing nest.

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

3. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?
(a) When it is assailed by elements of nature.
(b) When a new family moves in.
(c) When it is immortalized by a poet.
(d) When it is vacant.

4. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?
(a) The idea of a house.
(b) The idea of a painting.
(c) Science.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?

2. For Bachelard, the well-being of a nest diminishes what?

3. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphor of drawers to describe the human brain?

4. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Pasternak describe a nest?

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

5. What is the "objectivity" of a house as described by Bachelard?

6. What is a house for a phenomenologist?

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

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

9. 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"?

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

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