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

2. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Verse.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Overall structure.
(d) The isolated poetic image.

3. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Externalities, that which we say.
(b) Internalities, that which we hear.
(c) Externalities, that which we hear.
(d) Internalities, that which we say.

4. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?
(a) The sense of escape.
(b) The sense of superiority.
(c) The sense of vertical rising.
(d) The sense of being closer to God.

5. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?
(a) Attic fears may be reasoned away.
(b) Attic fears indicate spiritual unrest.
(c) Attic fears indicate childhood trauma.
(d) Attic fears take longer fade, and remain tentative and unknown.

Short Answer Questions

1. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?

2. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?

3. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

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

5. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?

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