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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. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?
(a) The soul.
(b) The imagination.
(c) Poetry.
(d) The new house.

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

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

4. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?
(a) Understand causality.
(b) Relax at home.
(c) Establish a metaphysics of the imagination.
(d) Study psychoanalysis.

5. What are resonances 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the ability to imagine?

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

5. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?

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