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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nests.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?
(a) Nursery rhymes.
(b) Stick-figure drawings.
(c) The phenomenology of motherhood.
(d) The house where one was born.

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

3. Who claimed that only the image can keep up with the changes of nature?
(a) Pasternak.
(b) Michelet.
(c) Bachelard.
(d) Vlaminck.

4. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) It inspires the poetic spirit.
(b) It has more to see and experience than an open chest.
(c) It represents forgotten memories.
(d) It represents the human need for secrecy and confinement.

5. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?
(a) In criminal cellars.
(b) In the imagination.
(c) In dark attics.
(d) In childhood homes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a dream house for Bachelard?

2. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?

3. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?

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

5. With what did Pasternak identify the nest?

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