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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?
(a) The sense of escape.
(b) The sense of vertical rising.
(c) The sense of being closer to God.
(d) The sense of superiority.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?

2. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?

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

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

5. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?

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