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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. Victor Hugo's literary character, Quasimodo, described what as "egg, nest, house, country and universe"?
(a) The Taj Mahal.
(b) Aachen Cathedral.
(c) Canterbury Cathedral.
(d) Notre Dame Cathedral.

2. Why is a door ajar a quandary according to the author's perspective?
(a) A person must decide whether to open or close the door.
(b) It offers no protection, no matter how solidly built.
(c) Poetic imagery is inadequate to determine its meaning.
(d) It is neither open nor closed.

3. How does Bachelard refer to words?
(a) Locked boxes filled with mysteries.
(b) Leaves in an endless forest.
(c) Little houses with their own sense of space.
(d) Shells that conceal identies.

4. Why did Diole study and write about the desert?
(a) To get lost in the desert is to experience the loss of childhood memories.
(b) To get lost in the desert is to be a snail out of its shell.
(c) To wander in the desert is to change space and enter a psychically innovative one.
(d) To wander in the desert is to experience the poetic imagery of life.

5. How do psychoanalysts refer to the duality of self?
(a) Introvert and extrovert.
(b) Open and closed.
(c) Contained and universal.
(d) Poet and scientist.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?

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

3. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?

4. In folklore and poetry, as described by Bachelard, how is image size transposed?

5. The painter, Vlaminck, compared the contentment of humans to what?

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