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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?
(a) In childhood homes.
(b) In the imagination.
(c) In dark attics.
(d) In criminal cellars.

2. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?
(a) Objective irony.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Desire to move to a new house.
(d) Poetic irony.

3. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?
(a) A barrier against evil.
(b) A finality to mourning.
(c) The security of surrounding our inner self at death and burial.
(d) A chrysalis for new life.

4. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?
(a) Attic fears take longer fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(b) Attic fears may be reasoned away.
(c) Attic fears indicate childhood trauma.
(d) Attic fears indicate spiritual unrest.

5. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?
(a) The storm cloud.
(b) The hurricane.
(c) Animal life.
(d) Human existence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?

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

3. What does a metaphor present?

4. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?

5. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?

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