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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. What is a commitment of the soul according to the author?
(a) Shelter.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) Death.

2. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?
(a) Aesthetic value.
(b) Phenomenological value.
(c) Humanistic value.
(d) Artistic value.

3. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?
(a) Height and width.
(b) Poetry and science.
(c) House and home.
(d) Unity and complexity.

4. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?
(a) Rules of the marketplace.
(b) Rules of household order.
(c) Rules of logic.
(d) Rules of grammar.

5. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?
(a) The cellar.
(b) The attic.
(c) Every level.
(d) The sleeping level.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?

2. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

3. What does a metaphor present?

4. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?

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

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