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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. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?
(a) A humble house with no apparent resistance set alone on an island.
(b) A massive house, well fortified and on a hillside above the city.
(c) A humble house with no apparent resistance on a hillside above the city.
(d) A massive house, well fortified and set alone on an island.

2. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) Subjective matters of taste and style.
(b) Subjective feelings and dreams.
(c) The objects it contains.
(d) Its decor.

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

4. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?
(a) Yearn for the childhood house.
(b) Daydream or contemplate.
(c) Cherish their own homes.
(d) Build a dream house.

5. What is a center of order in a house, according to Bachelard?
(a) Stairways.
(b) The brain.
(c) Decorative objects.
(d) The wardrobe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For Bachelard, what do primal images of nests and shells offer to a person?

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

4. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?

5. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?

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. What is "La Redousse?"

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

4. What is the "objectivity" of a house as described by Bachelard?

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

6. How does Bachelard describe oneiric houses?

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

8. How does Pasternak describe a nest?

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

10. What is a house for a phenomenologist?

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