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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 level of a house is protected with strong beams and rafters, and, states the author, has darkness that disappears in daylight?
(a) The cellar.
(b) Every level.
(c) The main living area.
(d) The attic.

2. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?
(a) Establish a metaphysics of the imagination.
(b) Relax at home.
(c) Study psychoanalysis.
(d) Understand causality.

3. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) Its decor.
(b) Subjective matters of taste and style.
(c) The objects it contains.
(d) Subjective feelings and dreams.

4. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Two, including cellar and attic.
(b) Three, including cellar and attic.
(c) Four, excluding cellar and attic.
(d) Four, including cellar and attic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?

2. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?

3. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?

4. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?

5. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?

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