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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?
(a) The spiritual flow between rooms and levels.
(b) All the ways in which an individual inhabits his vital space.
(c) Paranormal presences.
(d) Drafty places which lead to pheumonia and other respiratory complaints.

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

3. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?
(a) The city house, or apartment, has no intimacy because it shares common walls.
(b) The city house, or apartment, has no security because too many people live too close together.
(c) The city house, or apartment, is usually not one's childhood home.
(d) The city house, or apartment, has no verticality because elevators have replaced stairs.

4. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?
(a) The sleeping level.
(b) Every level.
(c) The attic.
(d) The cellar.

5. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?
(a) Cellar fears indicate childhood trauma.
(b) Cellar fears take longer to fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(c) Cellar fears may be reasoned away.
(d) Cellar fears precede mental illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?

2. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?

3. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?

4. What is a commitment of the soul according to the author?

5. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?

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