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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. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) Subjective matters of taste and style.
(b) Its decor.
(c) Subjective feelings and dreams.
(d) The objects it contains.

2. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) It represents forgotten memories.
(b) It has more to see and experience than an open chest.
(c) It inspires the poetic spirit.
(d) It represents the human need for secrecy and confinement.

3. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?
(a) The psychoanalyst.
(b) The architect.
(c) The scientist.
(d) The poet.

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

5. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Three, including cellar and attic.
(b) Two, including cellar and attic.
(c) Four, including cellar and attic.
(d) Four, excluding cellar and attic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?

2. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?

3. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?

4. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?

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

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