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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. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Fear of isolation.
(b) A forgotten image.
(c) Rhythmic thoughts.
(d) Appreciation for rhymes.

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

3. 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 psychoanalyst probing the psyche.
(d) A storm ravaging a house.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?

2. For Bachelard, the well-being of a nest diminishes what?

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

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

5. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Bachelard claim that daydreams of nests start us dreaming of security?

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

6. How does Pasternak describe a nest?

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

8. What is a house for a phenomenologist?

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

10. Why does Bachelard believe the ability to imagine is a major power of human nature?

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