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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. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?
(a) The imagination.
(b) The soul.
(c) The new house.
(d) Poetry.

2. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?
(a) As a warning of death.
(b) As a universal child from centuries earlier.
(c) As a butterfly in a chrysalis.
(d) As a baby in a cradle.

3. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?
(a) In the imagination.
(b) In childhood homes.
(c) In criminal cellars.
(d) In dark attics.

4. What is a commitment of the soul according to the author?
(a) Psychoanalysis.
(b) Shelter.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Death.

5. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?
(a) Human existence.
(b) The storm cloud.
(c) The hurricane.
(d) Animal life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

2. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?

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

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

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

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