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

2. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?
(a) The phenomenology of motherhood.
(b) The house where one was born.
(c) Nursery rhymes.
(d) Stick-figure drawings.

3. Which level of a house is protected with strong beams and rafters, and, states the author, has darkness that disappears in daylight?
(a) Every level.
(b) The main living area.
(c) The cellar.
(d) The attic.

4. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?
(a) The city house, or apartment, has no verticality because elevators have replaced stairs.
(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 intimacy because it shares common walls.
(d) The city house, or apartment, is usually not one's childhood home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ability to imagine?

2. What is another word for ontology?

3. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

4. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?

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

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