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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 are resonances as defined by Bachelard?

2. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?

3. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?

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

5. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is topophilia, according to Bachelard?

2. What is the significance of the wardrobe in relation to a house as described by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes"?

3. 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"?

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

5. What is "La Redousse?"

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

7. For Bachelard, how is a nest connected with the foliage of the forest?

8. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphorical use of the drawer?

9. Why does Bachelard focus on the isolated poetic image, even though it is the least significant element in the composition of a poem?

10. What is a house for a phenomenologist?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the ontology, or beingness, of a poetic image? Why does Bachelard choose to consider only the poetic image in the scope of "The Poetics of Space," even though he acknowledges that it is the least significant part of a poem?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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