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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. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?
(a) Poet.
(b) Scientist.
(c) Architect.
(d) Psychoanalyst.

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

3. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?
(a) The poetic imagination.
(b) The intricacies of architecture.
(c) The field of psychoanalysis.
(d) The real estate market.

4. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?
(a) Rules of household order.
(b) Rules of logic.
(c) Rules of grammar.
(d) Rules of the marketplace.

5. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?
(a) Psychologist.
(b) Psychoanalyst.
(c) Artist.
(d) Philosopher.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?

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

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

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

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