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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. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?
(a) Drafty places which lead to pheumonia and other respiratory complaints.
(b) Paranormal presences.
(c) The spiritual flow between rooms and levels.
(d) All the ways in which an individual inhabits his vital space.

2. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?
(a) The sense of escape.
(b) The sense of vertical rising.
(c) The sense of being closer to God.
(d) The sense of superiority.

3. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?
(a) Fears related to a house's interior space.
(b) The nature of a plot of land, whether flat or sloped.
(c) Happy space that is eulogized and enjoyed.
(d) Fear of steep hillsides.

4. What is a center of order in a house, according to Bachelard?
(a) Stairways.
(b) The brain.
(c) The wardrobe.
(d) Decorative objects.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?

2. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?

3. What is the ability to imagine?

4. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphor of drawers to describe the human brain?

5. What is anthropo-cosmology?

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