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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?
(a) Science.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) The idea of a house.
(d) The idea of a painting.

2. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Intimacy.
(d) Poetic structure.

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

4. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?
(a) Desire to move to a new house.
(b) Objective irony.
(c) Poetic irony.
(d) Schizophrenia.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?

3. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?

4. For Bachelard, why is the inner space of a wardrobe an intimate space?

5. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?

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