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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sartre was struck by what realization of Hughes's literary character, Emily?
(a) She was the universe.
(b) She was an invented child.
(c) She was a poet.
(d) She was she.

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

3. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?
(a) Artistic value.
(b) Humanistic value.
(c) Phenomenological value.
(d) Aesthetic value.

4. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?
(a) The sense of escape.
(b) The sense of vertical rising.
(c) The sense of superiority.
(d) The sense of being closer to God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?

2. Bachelard believes that philosophers are condemned by their equals to live on which floor of a house, metaphorically speaking?

3. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?

4. Bachelard theorizes that dreams of nests inspire what?

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

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