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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. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?
2. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?
3. Central to the author's main theme in "Nests," how does a simple image avoid intimidation?
4. What does a metaphor present?
5. Bachelard theorizes that dreams of nests inspire what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is a house for a phenomenologist?
2. How are old homes and nests similar according to Bachelard?
3. What does Baudelaire note, with regard to houses and the weather?
4. Why does Bachelard claim that daydreams of nests start us dreaming of security?
5. Why does Bachelard believe the ability to imagine is a major power of human nature?
6. What, according to Bachelard, is the homology that exists between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy?
7. What is "La Redousse?"
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. How does Bachelard describe oneiric houses?
10. What is topoanalysis, according to Bachelard, with regard to a house and its hidden memories?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As described in "The Phenomenology of Roundness," what is absolute bird and the being of round life? How does this concept fit with Bachelard's poetics of space?
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
Discuss the concept of "invented childhood," as mentioned in "Corners." How does this relate to daydreaming and memories?
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