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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 explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?
(a) Anthropo-cosmology.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Cosmology.
(d) Homology.

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. 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, is usually not one's childhood home.
(c) The city house, or apartment, has no intimacy because it shares common walls.
(d) The city house, or apartment, has no verticality because elevators have replaced stairs.

4. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?
(a) Poetic daydreams.
(b) New resolutions to nightmares.
(c) Poetic descriptions of the night.
(d) New memories.

5. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Music.
(c) Poetry or daydreaming.
(d) Emerging from one's home to experience the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?

2. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?

3. For Bachelard, why is the inner space of a wardrobe an intimate space?

4. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

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

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