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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. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?
(a) As a warning of death.
(b) As a baby in a cradle.
(c) As a universal child from centuries earlier.
(d) As a butterfly in a chrysalis.

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

3. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Overall structure.
(b) Emotion.
(c) The isolated poetic image.
(d) Verse.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does a metaphor present?

5. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?

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