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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?
(a) The phenomenology of motherhood.
(b) Nursery rhymes.
(c) The house where one was born.
(d) Stick-figure drawings.

3. What does a metaphor present?
(a) An intangible object as a tangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.
(b) A tangible object described in full detail.
(c) A tangible object as an intangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.
(d) An intangible object described in full detail.

4. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.
(b) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(c) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.
(d) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?

2. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?

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

4. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?

5. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?

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