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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. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?
(a) Poetry and science.
(b) Height and width.
(c) Unity and complexity.
(d) House and home.

2. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?
(a) Ultra-towers.
(b) Ultra-cellars.
(c) Mega-attics.
(d) Super-cellars.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?

3. What is another word for ontology?

4. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?

5. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?

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