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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. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphor of drawers to describe the human brain?
(a) Items get lost in drawers.
(b) He wonders how objects would be retrieved from the drawers.
(c) He wonders how reason determines which drawer should contain each new object.
(d) A chest of drawers is finite, while the brain's capacity is infinite.

2. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?
(a) Rilke.
(b) Bachelard.
(c) Bosco.
(d) Baudelaire.

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

4. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) It inspires the poetic spirit.
(b) It has more to see and experience than an open chest.
(c) It represents the human need for secrecy and confinement.
(d) It represents forgotten memories.

5. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) A forgotten image.
(b) Fear of isolation.
(c) Rhythmic thoughts.
(d) Appreciation for rhymes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?

2. For psychoanalysts, what do conflicted locks and keys in dreams symbolize?

3. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?

4. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?

5. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?

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