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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 give negative energy to a house.
(b) Locked boxes defy discovery.
(c) Locked boxes prevent intimacy.
(d) Locks can be broken and trick boxes can be figured out.

2. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?
(a) When a house is torn down, the memories fade.
(b) Dates of events are more important than the sense of where they occur.
(c) Dates of events are less important than the sense of where they occur.
(d) The soul cannot be at peace unless residing in the childhood home.

3. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?
(a) Poetic imagery.
(b) Causality.
(c) Beingness.
(d) Reverberation.

4. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?
(a) Rilke.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Bosco.
(d) Bachelard.

5. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?
(a) To protect property.
(b) To shelter daydreaming.
(c) To create cities.
(d) To define boundaries.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?

4. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?

5. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?

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