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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 spent the majority of his career in what occupation?
(a) Scientist.
(b) Poet.
(c) Architect.
(d) Psychoanalyst.

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

3. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.
(b) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.
(c) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(d) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.

4. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?
(a) The city house, or apartment, has no verticality because elevators have replaced stairs.
(b) The city house, or apartment, is usually not one's childhood home.
(c) The city house, or apartment, has no security because too many people live too close together.
(d) The city house, or apartment, has no intimacy because it shares common walls.

5. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?
(a) Poetry and science.
(b) Height and width.
(c) House and home.
(d) Unity and complexity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?

3. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?

4. What is the ability to imagine?

5. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?

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