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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the ability to imagine?
(a) A waste of the intelligent mind.
(b) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.
(c) A major power of human nature.
(d) A symptom of mental illness.

3. Due to the intimacy of cherished objects, states Bachelard, housework can become what sort of activity?
(a) Group.
(b) Recreational.
(c) Mundane.
(d) Creative.

4. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?
(a) Height and width.
(b) Unity and complexity.
(c) Poetry and science.
(d) House and home.

5. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?
(a) Architect.
(b) Psychoanalyst.
(c) Scientist.
(d) Poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?

2. What is anthropo-cosmology?

3. Bachelard theorizes that dreams of nests inspire what?

4. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?

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

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