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

2. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) Negative objectivity.
(b) Dry poetics.
(c) Dry rationalism.
(d) Pop psychology.

3. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?
(a) The spiritual flow between rooms and levels.
(b) All the ways in which an individual inhabits his vital space.
(c) Drafty places which lead to pheumonia and other respiratory complaints.
(d) Paranormal presences.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?

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

3. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?

4. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?

5. How is a nest connected to the foliage of the forest according to the author?

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