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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 has more to see and experience than an open chest.
(b) It inspires the poetic spirit.
(c) It represents the human need for secrecy and confinement.
(d) It represents forgotten memories.

2. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?
(a) The imagination.
(b) Poetry.
(c) The soul.
(d) The new house.

3. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?
(a) Desire to move to a new house.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Objective irony.
(d) Poetic irony.

4. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?
(a) Bosco.
(b) Bachelard.
(c) Baudelaire.
(d) Rilke.

5. For Bachelard, the well-being of a nest diminishes what?
(a) Scientific objectivity.
(b) The need for poetic expression.
(c) The desire to find a new home.
(d) Hostility of the world.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?

3. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?

4. Victor Hugo's literary character, Quasimodo, described what as "egg, nest, house, country and universe"?

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

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