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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. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?
(a) As a universal child from centuries earlier.
(b) As a warning of death.
(c) As a baby in a cradle.
(d) As a butterfly in a chrysalis.

2. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?
(a) Yearn for the childhood house.
(b) Daydream or contemplate.
(c) Build a dream house.
(d) Cherish their own homes.

3. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Internalities, that which we say.
(b) Externalities, that which we say.
(c) Externalities, that which we hear.
(d) Internalities, that which we hear.

4. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?
(a) A man dreaming of poetic imagery.
(b) A hermit's hut.
(c) A vacant house.
(d) A childhood home.

5. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?
(a) New memories.
(b) New resolutions to nightmares.
(c) Poetic daydreams.
(d) Poetic descriptions of the night.

Short Answer Questions

1. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?

2. With what did Pasternak identify the nest?

3. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?

4. What is anthropo-cosmology?

5. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. How do poets, psychologists, and psychoanalysts differ in their views of locks and closed boxes in the opinion of Bachelard?

4. What is a house for a phenomenologist?

5. As stated by the author in "House and Universe," what is the significance of old houses one used to live in?

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

7. How does Bachelard describe oneiric houses?

8. What is topophilia, according to Bachelard?

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. As theorized by Bachelard, what is the main benefit of a house, and what is the significance of the house one is born in?

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