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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. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?
(a) Beingness.
(b) Reverberation.
(c) Poetic imagery.
(d) Causality.

2. Central to the author's main theme in "Nests," how does a simple image avoid intimidation?
(a) Color.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Majesty.
(d) Rhythm and rhyme.

3. What is another word for ontology?
(a) Psychoanalysis.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Beingness.
(d) Causality.

4. A woodpecker pecking in a tree can be compared to what in the author's continuing metaphor?
(a) A poetic anomoly.
(b) Annoying neighbors who create a disturbance.
(c) A storm ravaging a house.
(d) A psychoanalyst probing the psyche.

5. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?
(a) Attic fears indicate spiritual unrest.
(b) Attic fears take longer fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(c) Attic fears indicate childhood trauma.
(d) Attic fears may be reasoned away.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?

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

4. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?

5. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is topophilia, according to Bachelard?

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

4. What is the difference between image and metaphor, for Bachelard?

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

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

7. How does Pasternak describe a nest?

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

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

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

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