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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. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?
(a) Reverberation.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Art.
(d) Causality.

2. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?
(a) A barrier against evil.
(b) A chrysalis for new life.
(c) The security of surrounding our inner self at death and burial.
(d) A finality to mourning.

3. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?
(a) Lead to future discovery.
(b) Make the world get along better.
(c) Maintain secrecy.
(d) Create deceptions.

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

5. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?
(a) When it is assailed by elements of nature.
(b) When it is immortalized by a poet.
(c) When it is vacant.
(d) When a new family moves in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?

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

3. The painter, Vlaminck, compared the contentment of humans to what?

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

5. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. For Bachelard, how is a nest connected with the foliage of the forest?

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

4. After years of study as a scientist, Bachelard shifted his attention to what new reality?

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

6. What, according to Bachelard, is a dream house?

7. How does Bachelard describe oneiric houses?

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

9. What is topoanalysis, according to Bachelard, with regard to a house and its hidden memories?

10. 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"?

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