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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 is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?
(a) From the sturdy chrysalis, the delicate butterfly emerges.
(b) From the cottage chrysalis, the winged manor flies.
(c) From the unnoticed chrysalis, the flamboyant butterfly flies.
(d) From the childhood chrysalis, the butterfly moves to a new house.

2. For Bachelard, what do primal images of nests and shells offer to a person?
(a) They suggest a return to the womb.
(b) They offer freedom to create poetry.
(c) They allow a person safe and pleasurable withdrawal into his corner.
(d) They offer a cure for claustrophobia.

3. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) Dry rationalism.
(b) Negative objectivity.
(c) Dry poetics.
(d) Pop psychology.

4. For psychoanalysts, what do conflicted locks and keys in dreams symbolize?
(a) Temptations.
(b) New discoveries.
(c) Sexual intimacy.
(d) Repression.

5. What is a dream house for Bachelard?
(a) The largest house in the area.
(b) A home one dreams of owning or a home one purchases and alters.
(c) A house that exists only in the poetic mind.
(d) A house accessible only in dreams.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A woodpecker pecking in a tree can be compared to what in the author's continuing metaphor?

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

4. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?

5. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bachelard focus on the isolated poetic image, even though it is the least significant element in the composition of a poem?

2. How does Bachelard describe oneiric houses?

3. 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"?

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

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

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

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

8. What is the concept of pure sublimation as put forth by Bachelard, and why is it useful?

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

10. What is topophilia, according to Bachelard?

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