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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?
(a) The idea of a house.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Science.
(d) The idea of a painting.

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

3. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?
(a) The poetic imagination.
(b) The field of psychoanalysis.
(c) The real estate market.
(d) The intricacies of architecture.

4. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?
(a) Attic fears take longer fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(b) Attic fears indicate childhood trauma.
(c) Attic fears may be reasoned away.
(d) Attic fears indicate spiritual unrest.

5. What is a dream house for Bachelard?
(a) The largest house in the area.
(b) A home one dreams of owning or a home one purchases and alters.
(c) A house that exists only in the poetic mind.
(d) A house accessible only in dreams.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?

3. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?

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

5. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?

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