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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. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?

2. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?

3. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?

4. Due to the intimacy of cherished objects, states Bachelard, housework can become what sort of activity?

5. Bachelard theorizes that dreams of nests inspire what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Pasternak describe a nest?

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. How did Bosco alter Bergson's drawer metaphor?

5. What is the "objectivity" of a house as described by Bachelard?

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

7. What, according to Bachelard, is the homology that exists between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy?

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

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

10. How does Bachelard describe oneiric houses?

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

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

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

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