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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?
(a) The city house, or apartment, has no intimacy because it shares common walls.
(b) The city house, or apartment, has no security because too many people live too close together.
(c) The city house, or apartment, is usually not one's childhood home.
(d) The city house, or apartment, has no verticality because elevators have replaced stairs.

2. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?
(a) Understand causality.
(b) Study psychoanalysis.
(c) Relax at home.
(d) Establish a metaphysics of the imagination.

3. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Internalities, that which we hear.
(b) Externalities, that which we hear.
(c) Internalities, that which we say.
(d) Externalities, that which we say.

4. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?
(a) Causality.
(b) Poetic imagery.
(c) Beingness.
(d) Reverberation.

5. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?
(a) Mega-attics.
(b) Ultra-cellars.
(c) Ultra-towers.
(d) Super-cellars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another word for ontology?

2. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?

3. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?

4. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?

5. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

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