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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. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?

2. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?

3. How does Bachelard describe images that attribute human qualities to a nest?

4. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

5. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a house for a phenomenologist?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Pasternak describe a nest?

8. What is "La Redousse?"

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

10. How does Bachelard describe oneiric houses?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In "Corners," what do corners contain, according to Bachelard? How does Milosz's cynical character bolster Bachelard's notions?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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