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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?
(a) When a house is torn down, the memories fade.
(b) Dates of events are more important than the sense of where they occur.
(c) Dates of events are less important than the sense of where they occur.
(d) The soul cannot be at peace unless residing in the childhood home.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another word for ontology?

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

3. What is anthropo-cosmology?

4. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?

5. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?

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