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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. What is another word for ontology?
(a) Causality.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Beingness.
(d) Poetry.

2. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?
(a) Superimposed cellars.
(b) Ultra-boxes.
(c) Ultra-cellars.
(d) Superimposed boxes.

3. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?
(a) When a house is torn down, the memories fade.
(b) The soul cannot be at peace unless residing in the childhood home.
(c) Dates of events are more important than the sense of where they occur.
(d) Dates of events are less important than the sense of where they occur.

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

5. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?
(a) In criminal cellars.
(b) In dark attics.
(c) In childhood homes.
(d) In the imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?

2. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?

3. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?

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

5. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?

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