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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 a metaphor present?
(a) A tangible object as an intangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.
(b) A tangible object described in full detail.
(c) An intangible object described in full detail.
(d) An intangible object as a tangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.

2. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?
(a) Attic fears indicate childhood trauma.
(b) Attic fears indicate spiritual unrest.
(c) Attic fears take longer fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(d) Attic fears may be reasoned away.

3. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?
(a) Cellar fears may be reasoned away.
(b) Cellar fears indicate childhood trauma.
(c) Cellar fears take longer to fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(d) Cellar fears precede mental illness.

4. Bergson called drawers concepts into which what is classified?
(a) Psychological development.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Experience.
(d) Knowledge or thinking.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?

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

4. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?

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

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