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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. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?
(a) Maintain secrecy.
(b) Create deceptions.
(c) Lead to future discovery.
(d) Make the world get along better.

2. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?
(a) Intimacy.
(b) Poetic structure.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Dreams.

3. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?
(a) The city house, or apartment, has no intimacy because it shares common walls.
(b) The city house, or apartment, has no verticality because elevators have replaced stairs.
(c) The city house, or apartment, has no security because too many people live too close together.
(d) The city house, or apartment, is usually not one's childhood home.

4. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Frequently, to add color and variety to expression.
(b) Rarely, only when words are inadequate.
(c) Rarely, only to add complexity to a poem.
(d) Frequently, to stimulate creativity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?

2. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

3. What is a center of order in a house, according to Bachelard?

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

5. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?

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