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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. For Bachelard, why is the inner space of a wardrobe an intimate space?
(a) Clothing is part of one's persona.
(b) Not everyone sees it.
(c) When closed, the inner space disappears.
(d) Clothing reveals dreams.

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

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

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

5. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?
(a) Market value of art.
(b) The personality of the artist.
(c) Mental stability.
(d) Isolated poetic images.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

2. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?

3. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?

4. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?

5. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Bachelard describe oneiric houses?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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