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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. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?
(a) Music.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Poetry or daydreaming.
(d) Emerging from one's home to experience the world.

2. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?
(a) Beingness.
(b) Poetic imagery.
(c) Reverberation.
(d) Causality.

3. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?
(a) Scientist.
(b) Psychoanalyst.
(c) Poet.
(d) Architect.

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

5. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Externalities, that which we say.
(b) Internalities, that which we say.
(c) Externalities, that which we hear.
(d) Internalities, that which we hear.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?

3. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?

4. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?

5. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?

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