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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. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?
(a) Causality.
(b) Beingness.
(c) Poetic imagery.
(d) Reverberation.

2. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?
(a) Mental stability.
(b) The personality of the artist.
(c) Isolated poetic images.
(d) Market value of art.

3. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?
(a) Music.
(b) Poetry or daydreaming.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) Emerging from one's home to experience the world.

4. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?
(a) The idea of a painting.
(b) The idea of a house.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) Science.

5. For Bachelard, why is the inner space of a wardrobe an intimate space?
(a) Clothing is part of one's persona.
(b) Clothing reveals dreams.
(c) Not everyone sees it.
(d) When closed, the inner space disappears.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. An inversion of perspective takes us where according to Bachelard?

4. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?

5. What is the paradox of an old forest, as explained by the author?

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