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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?
(a) As a warning of death.
(b) As a butterfly in a chrysalis.
(c) As a universal child from centuries earlier.
(d) As a baby in a cradle.

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

3. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?
(a) The creation of earth.
(b) The origin of man.
(c) The human body that encases the soul like an envelope.
(d) The hut.

4. Central to the author's main theme in "Nests," how does a simple image avoid intimidation?
(a) Rhythm and rhyme.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Color.
(d) Majesty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard believes that philosophers are condemned by their equals to live on which floor of a house, metaphorically speaking?

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

3. Who lives in the new that guides the phenomenologist in Bachelard's opinion?

4. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?

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

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