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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nests.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?
(a) New memories.
(b) Poetic daydreams.
(c) New resolutions to nightmares.
(d) Poetic descriptions of the night.

3. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Internalities, that which we say.
(b) Externalities, that which we hear.
(c) Internalities, that which we hear.
(d) Externalities, that which we say.

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

5. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?
(a) Pare.
(b) Pasternak.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Vlaminck.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who claimed that only the image can keep up with the changes of nature?

2. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?

3. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?

4. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?

5. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?

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