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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?

2. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?

3. With what did Pasternak identify the nest?

4. What does Bachelard believe is an antidote for claustrophobia?

5. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is topophilia, according to Bachelard?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the inner immensity of man compare with the immensity of the forest according to Bachelard in "Intimate Immensity"? Why is this comparison a paradox?

Essay Topic 2

As expressed in "The Dialectics of Outside and Inside," how are outside space and inside space like a mixture of being and nothingness? How, according to Michaux, can claustrophobia and agoraphobia occur simultaneously even though they are opposites?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of the struggle of Bosco's "La Redousse" against the menagerie of the hurricane. Why does Bachelin consider winter to be the oldest season reminding us of remote past? In "House and Universe," what does Bachelard state is the relationship between a house and the universe?

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