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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. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?
(a) Rules of logic.
(b) Rules of grammar.
(c) Rules of household order.
(d) Rules of the marketplace.

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

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 precede mental illness.
(d) Cellar fears take longer to fade, and remain tentative and unknown.

4. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?
(a) Happy, with doorknobs and chimney smoke.
(b) A dream house.
(c) Cold, motionless, and rigid.
(d) Small and dark.

5. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?
(a) Art.
(b) Causality.
(c) Reverberation.
(d) Imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Diole study and write about the desert?

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

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

4. Bachelard prefers to use the term "vast" to describe what?

5. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

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