View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through House and Universe.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?
(a) Desire to move to a new house.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Poetic irony.
(d) Objective irony.

3. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?
(a) Animal life.
(b) The hurricane.
(c) Human existence.
(d) The storm cloud.

4. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?
(a) Music.
(b) Poetry or daydreaming.
(c) Emerging from one's home to experience the world.
(d) Spirituality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?

2. What is anthropo-cosmology?

3. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?

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

5. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 290 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample