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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For Bachelard, the well-being of a nest diminishes what?
(a) The desire to find a new home.
(b) Hostility of the world.
(c) Scientific objectivity.
(d) The need for poetic expression.

3. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.
(b) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.
(c) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.
(d) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.

4. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?
(a) Memories lost in a filing cabinet.
(b) Lost intimacy.
(c) Poetic irony.
(d) Abandonment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A woodpecker pecking in a tree can be compared to what in the author's continuing metaphor?

2. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?

3. Which level of a house is protected with strong beams and rafters, and, states the author, has darkness that disappears in daylight?

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

5. What is a commitment of the soul according to the author?

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