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

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

3. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?
(a) The structure of a house.
(b) Isolated poetic images.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) The structure of a poem.

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

5. What is a commitment of the soul according to the author?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Death.
(c) Shelter.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?

2. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

3. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?

4. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?

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

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