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

2. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Four, excluding cellar and attic.
(b) Four, including cellar and attic.
(c) Three, including cellar and attic.
(d) Two, including cellar and attic.

3. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) A forgotten image.
(b) Appreciation for rhymes.
(c) Fear of isolation.
(d) Rhythmic thoughts.

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

5. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?
(a) Happy space that is eulogized and enjoyed.
(b) Fears related to a house's interior space.
(c) The nature of a plot of land, whether flat or sloped.
(d) Fear of steep hillsides.

Short Answer Questions

1. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?

2. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?

3. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?

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

5. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?

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