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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. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?
(a) Locks can be broken and trick boxes can be figured out.
(b) Locked boxes defy discovery.
(c) Locks give negative energy to a house.
(d) Locked boxes prevent intimacy.

2. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?
(a) Psychologist.
(b) Psychoanalyst.
(c) Artist.
(d) Philosopher.

3. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?
(a) The structure of a house.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) The structure of a poem.
(d) Isolated poetic images.

4. Which level of a house is protected with strong beams and rafters, and, states the author, has darkness that disappears in daylight?
(a) The cellar.
(b) The main living area.
(c) The attic.
(d) Every level.

5. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?
(a) The idea of a painting.
(b) Science.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) The idea of a house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another word for ontology?

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

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

4. What is a center of order in a house, according to Bachelard?

5. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?

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