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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?
(a) A humble house with no apparent resistance on a hillside above the city.
(b) A massive house, well fortified and on a hillside above the city.
(c) A massive house, well fortified and set alone on an island.
(d) A humble house with no apparent resistance set alone on an island.

2. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Art.
(c) Reverberation.
(d) Causality.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?

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

3. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?

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

5. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

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