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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?
(a) Image.
(b) Poetry.
(c) The spoken word.
(d) Dreams.

3. What does Bachelard believe is an antidote for claustrophobia?
(a) Spending time away from one's house.
(b) Dynamic houses that open back out to the universe.
(c) Stairways.
(d) Light colors.

4. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?
(a) Fears related to a house's interior space.
(b) The nature of a plot of land, whether flat or sloped.
(c) Happy space that is eulogized and enjoyed.
(d) Fear of steep hillsides.

5. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?
(a) Vlaminck.
(b) Pasternak.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Pare.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?

3. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?

4. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?

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

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