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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. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?
2. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?
3. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?
4. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?
5. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphorical use of the drawer?
2. As explained by Bachelard, what is the beingness, or ontology, of the poetic image?
3. How do poets, psychologists, and psychoanalysts differ in their views of locks and closed boxes in the opinion of Bachelard?
4. What is the difference between image and metaphor, for Bachelard?
5. How does Bachelard describe oneiric houses?
6. How does Victor Hugo's character, Quasimodo, describe Notre Dame Cathedral? What functions do his feelings represent?
7. 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"?
8. Why does Bachelard claim that daydreams of nests start us dreaming of security?
9. What is topoanalysis, according to Bachelard, with regard to a house and its hidden memories?
10. What is the "objectivity" of a house as described by Bachelard?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the main theme of "The Poetics of Space"? What main points are raised by Bachelard to support this theme?
Essay Topic 2
Why does Bachelard feel the need to dephilosophize and undo psychoanalysis in order to take a fresh approach to the process of imagination?
Essay Topic 3
Why is the ability to imagine a major power of human nature? How is an imagined poetic image different from the things surrounding us that can be seen?
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