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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 another word for ontology?
(a) Psychoanalysis.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Causality.
(d) Beingness.

2. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?
(a) The house where one was born.
(b) Stick-figure drawings.
(c) The phenomenology of motherhood.
(d) Nursery rhymes.

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

4. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) The spoken word.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Image.

5. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?
(a) Small and dark.
(b) Happy, with doorknobs and chimney smoke.
(c) Cold, motionless, and rigid.
(d) A dream house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?

2. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?

3. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?

4. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?

5. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?

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