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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 the ability to imagine?
(a) A major power of human nature.
(b) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.
(c) A waste of the intelligent mind.
(d) A symptom of mental illness.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which level of a house is protected with strong beams and rafters, and, states the author, has darkness that disappears in daylight?

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

4. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?

5. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?

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