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

Multiple Choice Questions

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 Where is the character, Emily, when she recognizes that she has withdrawn into herself?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

2. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?
(a) The architect.
(b) The poet.
(c) The psychoanalyst.
(d) The scientist.

3. How did Bosco transform Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet but an unstructured jumble of information.
(b) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet, but the filing cabinet is a brain.
(c) He claimed that the brain's filing cabinet is used only to file away memories that will be forgotton.
(d) He claimed that the brain is more like a wardrobe with secret space.

4. How does Bachelard refer to words?
(a) Leaves in an endless forest.
(b) Little houses with their own sense of space.
(c) Shells that conceal identies.
(d) Locked boxes filled with mysteries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bergson called drawers concepts into which what is classified?

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

3. How do psychoanalysts refer to the duality of self?

4. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?

5. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?

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