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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dialectics of Outside and Inside.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?
(a) From the unnoticed chrysalis, the flamboyant butterfly flies.
(b) From the childhood chrysalis, the butterfly moves to a new house.
(c) From the cottage chrysalis, the winged manor flies.
(d) From the sturdy chrysalis, the delicate butterfly emerges.

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

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

4. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Externalities, that which we say.
(b) Internalities, that which we say.
(c) Externalities, that which we hear.
(d) Internalities, that which we hear.

5. What idea, prevalent in novels, did Sartre seek to illuminate?
(a) Extroversion.
(b) Human intimacy.
(c) Introversion.
(d) Invented childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a commitment of the soul according to the author?

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

3. How does Tom Thumb's stature become believable?

4. According to Bachelard, what term can describe the emergence of being through poetry and contemplation of poetic immensity?

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

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