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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. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphor of drawers to describe the human brain?

2. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?

3. What is a dream house for Bachelard?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. After years of study as a scientist, Bachelard shifted his attention to what new reality?

2. What is topophilia, according to Bachelard?

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

4. What is the concept of pure sublimation as put forth by Bachelard, and why is it useful?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the view of a phenomenologist, how does an individual inhabit his vital space? What is the anthropo-cosmology of a space?

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 Bachelard's view of cellars and cellar fears as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut." How does he use the works of Bosco and Poe to reinforce his view?

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