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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the opinion of Bachelard, a corner is a place of what sort of motion?
(a) Three-dimensional space.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Immobility.
(d) Vertical and horizontal.

3. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Two, including cellar and attic.
(b) Four, excluding cellar and attic.
(c) Four, including cellar and attic.
(d) Three, including cellar and attic.

4. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?
(a) Rilke.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Bosco.
(d) Bachelard.

5. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?
(a) Intimacy.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Poetic structure.
(d) Dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bachelard describe images that attribute human qualities to a nest?

2. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?

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

4. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?

5. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?

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