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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. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?
2. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?
3. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?
4. For Bachelard, the well-being of a nest diminishes what?
5. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?
Short Essay Questions
1. To what did Vlaminck compare the contentment of humans in their homes?
2. What is topoanalysis, according to Bachelard, with regard to a house and its hidden memories?
3. What does Baudelaire note, with regard to houses and the weather?
4. As stated by the author in "House and Universe," what is the significance of old houses one used to live in?
5. As explained by Bachelard, what is the beingness, or ontology, of the poetic image?
6. What is the significance of the wardrobe in relation to a house as described by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes"?
7. For Bachelard, how is a nest connected with the foliage of the forest?
8. What is "La Redousse?"
9. How do poets, psychologists, and psychoanalysts differ in their views of locks and closed boxes in the opinion of Bachelard?
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
In "Miniature," what does Bachelard mean when he states that miniatures are not just smaller large things? Consider views through a magnifying glass.
Essay Topic 2
Why does Bachelard cite so many writers and great thinkers to shore up his theories rather than create his own isolated narrative? Is his need to cite authors for "evidence" a remnant of his scientifically-oriented mode of thinking? Is his technique successful?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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