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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. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?
(a) Ultra-cellars.
(b) Ultra-boxes.
(c) Superimposed boxes.
(d) Superimposed cellars.

2. Central to the author's main theme in "Nests," how does a simple image avoid intimidation?
(a) Majesty.
(b) Rhythm and rhyme.
(c) Color.
(d) Repetition.

3. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?
(a) Vlaminck.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Pasternak.
(d) Pare.

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

5. Poets, states Bachelard, use words to bring together what two entities?
(a) Earth and sky.
(b) Individual and universe.
(c) Inside and outside.
(d) Past and present.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Bachelard's topoanalysis, in which level of a house does common sense live?

2. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?

3. What does Bachelard say makes miniatures of all things seen?

4. To what iconic Van Gogh image does the author compare a bird's nest on the ground?

5. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?

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