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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does a metaphor present?
(a) An intangible object as a tangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.
(b) A tangible object described in full detail.
(c) An intangible object described in full detail.
(d) A tangible object as an intangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.

3. For psychoanalysts, what do conflicted locks and keys in dreams symbolize?
(a) Sexual intimacy.
(b) Repression.
(c) Temptations.
(d) New discoveries.

4. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?
(a) Superimposed cellars.
(b) Ultra-cellars.
(c) Superimposed boxes.
(d) Ultra-boxes.

5. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphor of drawers to describe the human brain?
(a) He wonders how reason determines which drawer should contain each new object.
(b) He wonders how objects would be retrieved from the drawers.
(c) A chest of drawers is finite, while the brain's capacity is infinite.
(d) Items get lost in drawers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?

2. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?

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

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

5. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?

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