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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. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?
(a) The city house, or apartment, is usually not one's childhood home.
(b) The city house, or apartment, has no security because too many people live too close together.
(c) The city house, or apartment, has no verticality because elevators have replaced stairs.
(d) The city house, or apartment, has no intimacy because it shares common walls.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?

2. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?

3. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?

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

5. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?

(see the answer key)

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