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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?
(a) A poem.
(b) A child's drawing.
(c) A soul at peace.
(d) A flourishing nest.

2. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?
(a) A childhood home.
(b) A hermit's hut.
(c) A vacant house.
(d) A man dreaming of poetic imagery.

3. What is forgotten by Milosz's cynical character?
(a) Childhood memories.
(b) Everything.
(c) Recent happy times.
(d) Nothing.

4. For psychoanalysts, what do conflicted locks and keys in dreams symbolize?
(a) New discoveries.
(b) Temptations.
(c) Repression.
(d) Sexual intimacy.

5. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?
(a) Every level.
(b) The cellar.
(c) The attic.
(d) The sleeping level.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?

3. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?

4. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?

5. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?

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