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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.
(b) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(c) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.
(d) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.

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

3. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?
(a) The soul.
(b) The new house.
(c) Poetry.
(d) The imagination.

4. Victor Hugo's literary character, Quasimodo, described what as "egg, nest, house, country and universe"?
(a) Notre Dame Cathedral.
(b) Aachen Cathedral.
(c) The Taj Mahal.
(d) Canterbury Cathedral.

5. Contrary to the intellectual philosopher, states Bachelard, a poet may use words in what way?
(a) For rhythm and rhyme, rather than meaning.
(b) To describe the origins of man.
(c) To create false illusions.
(d) For sensitivity rather than precision.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?

4. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?

5. For Bachelard, what do primal images of nests and shells offer to a person?

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