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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. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?
(a) The idea of a painting.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Science.
(d) The idea of a house.

2. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?
(a) Isolated poetic images.
(b) The structure of a house.
(c) The structure of a poem.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

3. 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.

4. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?
(a) Architect.
(b) Poet.
(c) Psychoanalyst.
(d) Scientist.

5. What is the ability to imagine?
(a) A major power of human nature.
(b) A waste of the intelligent mind.
(c) A symptom of mental illness.
(d) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?

2. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?

3. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?

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

5. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?

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