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

2. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Art.
(c) Reverberation.
(d) Causality.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another word for ontology?

2. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?

3. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?

4. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?

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

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