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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?

2. For Bachelard, why is the inner space of a wardrobe an intimate space?

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

4. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?

5. Bergson called drawers concepts into which what is classified?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

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

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

6. What is the symbolism associated with a hermit's hut, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut"?

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

8. What is topophilia, according to Bachelard?

9. How are old homes and nests similar according to Bachelard?

10. As theorized by Bachelard, what is the main benefit of a house, and what is the significance of the house one is born in?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As expressed in "The Dialectics of Outside and Inside," how are outside space and inside space like a mixture of being and nothingness? How, according to Michaux, can claustrophobia and agoraphobia occur simultaneously even though they are opposites?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of the struggle of Bosco's "La Redousse" against the menagerie of the hurricane. Why does Bachelin consider winter to be the oldest season reminding us of remote past? In "House and Universe," what does Bachelard state is the relationship between a house and the universe?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Bachelard feel the need to dephilosophize and undo psychoanalysis in order to take a fresh approach to the process of imagination?

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