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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. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?
(a) A massive house, well fortified and set alone on an island.
(b) A massive house, well fortified and on a hillside above the city.
(c) A humble house with no apparent resistance on a hillside above the city.
(d) A humble house with no apparent resistance set alone on an island.

2. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?
(a) Rilke.
(b) Bachelard.
(c) Bosco.
(d) Baudelaire.

3. Who imagined a snail rolling over and over to form its shell internally?
(a) Robinet.
(b) Pare.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Palissy.

4. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?
(a) Yearn for the childhood house.
(b) Cherish their own homes.
(c) Build a dream house.
(d) Daydream or contemplate.

5. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Intimacy.
(c) Poetic structure.
(d) Architecture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a center of order in a house, according to Bachelard?

2. Baudelaire used the term "vast" to describe what?

3. The cynical character created by the poet Milosz reminisces where?

4. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?

5. What are two opposing truths introduced by Bachelard in "Corners" regarding corners?

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