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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?
(a) Yearn for the childhood house.
(b) Daydream or contemplate.
(c) Cherish their own homes.
(d) Build a dream house.

3. Where is the character, Emily, when she recognizes that she has withdrawn into herself?
(a) Her palace.
(b) Climbing a tree.
(c) A boat.
(d) Her childhood home.

4. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?
(a) The magic of rainbows.
(b) The lover's nest.
(c) Poetic imagery.
(d) The refuge of the forest.

5. What does every corner or angle in a house symbolize for Bachelard?
(a) Memories lost in cobwebs.
(b) Blocked thought.
(c) Impassable boundaries.
(d) Solitude for the imagination.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the work of Milosz, how did he indicate that corners are not always safe?

3. Details and insignificant features, such as the curve of a molding, may inspire what, according to Bachelard?

4. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?

5. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?

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