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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. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?
(a) Causality.
(b) Reverberation.
(c) Art.
(d) Imagination.

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

3. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?
(a) Height and width.
(b) House and home.
(c) Unity and complexity.
(d) Poetry and science.

4. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?
(a) Cellar fears may be reasoned away.
(b) Cellar fears precede mental illness.
(c) Cellar fears indicate childhood trauma.
(d) Cellar fears take longer to fade, and remain tentative and unknown.

5. What is the ability to imagine?
(a) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.
(b) A major power of human nature.
(c) A waste of the intelligent mind.
(d) A symptom of mental illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?

2. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?

3. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?

4. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?

5. What is another word for ontology?

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