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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bachelard proposes that a person's time, speech, and very being are affected by what?
(a) Solitude.
(b) Death.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Silence.

3. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?
(a) A hermit's hut.
(b) A childhood home.
(c) A vacant house.
(d) A man dreaming of poetic imagery.

4. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?
(a) A massive house, well fortified and set alone on an island.
(b) A massive house, well fortified and on a hillside above the city.
(c) A humble house with no apparent resistance on a hillside above the city.
(d) A humble house with no apparent resistance set alone on an island.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Bosco transform Bergson's drawer metaphor?

2. The cynical character created by the poet Milosz reminisces where?

3. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?

4. Who created the tiny character Tom Thumb?

5. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?

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