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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?
(a) Ultra-boxes.
(b) Ultra-cellars.
(c) Superimposed boxes.
(d) Superimposed cellars.

5. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?
(a) The psychoanalyst.
(b) The poet.
(c) The architect.
(d) The scientist.

Short Answer Questions

1. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?

2. What is anthropo-cosmology?

3. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?

4. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?

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

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