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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. Victor Hugo's literary character, Quasimodo, described what as "egg, nest, house, country and universe"?
(a) The Taj Mahal.
(b) Notre Dame Cathedral.
(c) Aachen Cathedral.
(d) Canterbury Cathedral.

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

3. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Desire to move to a new house.
(c) Poetic irony.
(d) Objective irony.

4. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?
(a) In dark attics.
(b) In the imagination.
(c) In criminal cellars.
(d) In childhood homes.

5. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Four, including cellar and attic.
(b) Three, including cellar and attic.
(c) Two, including cellar and attic.
(d) Four, excluding cellar and attic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?

2. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?

3. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?

4. How did Bosco transform Bergson's drawer metaphor?

5. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is a house for a phenomenologist?

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

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

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

9. 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"?

10. What is "La Redousse?"

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