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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?
(a) Baudelaire.
(b) Bachelard.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Bosco.

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

3. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?
(a) Poetic structure.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Intimacy.

4. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?
(a) In cities.
(b) In the summer.
(c) In the countryside.
(d) In the winter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to the intimacy of cherished objects, states Bachelard, housework can become what sort of activity?

2. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?

3. What is a dream house for Bachelard?

4. What is anthropo-cosmology?

5. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?

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