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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 phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?
(a) All the ways in which an individual inhabits his vital space.
(b) Paranormal presences.
(c) The spiritual flow between rooms and levels.
(d) Drafty places which lead to pheumonia and other respiratory complaints.

2. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?
(a) Cellar fears indicate childhood trauma.
(b) Cellar fears take longer to fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(c) Cellar fears may be reasoned away.
(d) Cellar fears precede mental illness.

3. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?
(a) The magic of rainbows.
(b) The refuge of the forest.
(c) The lover's nest.
(d) Poetic imagery.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?

2. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?

3. To what iconic Van Gogh image does the author compare a bird's nest on the ground?

4. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?

5. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pasternak describe a nest?

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

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

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

5. What is the significance of the wardrobe in relation to a house as described by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes"?

6. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphorical use of the drawer?

7. 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"?

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

9. How does Bachelard describe oneiric houses?

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

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