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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. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?
(a) Locked boxes defy discovery.
(b) Locks can be broken and trick boxes can be figured out.
(c) Locked boxes prevent intimacy.
(d) Locks give negative energy to a house.

2. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Artist.
(c) Psychoanalyst.
(d) Psychologist.

3. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?
(a) The nature of a plot of land, whether flat or sloped.
(b) Happy space that is eulogized and enjoyed.
(c) Fear of steep hillsides.
(d) Fears related to a house's interior space.

4. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?
(a) In cities.
(b) In the countryside.
(c) In the winter.
(d) In the summer.

5. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) Subjective matters of taste and style.
(b) Its decor.
(c) The objects it contains.
(d) Subjective feelings and dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a metaphor present?

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

3. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?

4. For Bachelard, why is the inner space of a wardrobe an intimate space?

5. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the anthropo-cosmology of a house as described by Bachelard?

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

3. What, according to Bachelard, is the homology that exists between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy?

4. To what did Vlaminck compare the contentment of humans in their homes?

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

6. What is a house for a phenomenologist?

7. What is the symbolism associated with a hermit's hut, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut"?

8. How did Bosco alter Bergson's drawer metaphor?

9. How does Victor Hugo's character, Quasimodo, describe Notre Dame Cathedral? What functions do his feelings represent?

10. How does Pasternak describe a nest?

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