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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Corners.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea, prevalent in novels, did Sartre seek to illuminate?
(a) Invented childhood.
(b) Extroversion.
(c) Introversion.
(d) Human intimacy.

2. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) Dry rationalism.
(b) Pop psychology.
(c) Negative objectivity.
(d) Dry poetics.

3. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?
(a) Locks can be broken and trick boxes can be figured out.
(b) Locked boxes prevent intimacy.
(c) Locks give negative energy to a house.
(d) Locked boxes defy discovery.

4. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?
(a) As a universal child from centuries earlier.
(b) As a warning of death.
(c) As a baby in a cradle.
(d) As a butterfly in a chrysalis.

5. The cynical character created by the poet Milosz reminisces where?
(a) In church.
(b) In a tree.
(c) In a boat.
(d) In his palace.

Short Answer Questions

1. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?

2. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?

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

4. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?

5. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?

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