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

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

3. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?
(a) Dates of events are less important than the sense of where they occur.
(b) When a house is torn down, the memories fade.
(c) The soul cannot be at peace unless residing in the childhood home.
(d) Dates of events are more important than the sense of where they occur.

4. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?
(a) To protect property.
(b) To create cities.
(c) To shelter daydreaming.
(d) To define boundaries.

5. Bergson called drawers concepts into which what is classified?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Knowledge or thinking.
(c) Psychological development.
(d) Experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?

2. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?

3. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?

4. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?

5. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?

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