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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Valery's knowledge of geometry failed him in what regard?
(a) The ability to understand how a bird constructs a circular nest.
(b) The ability to understand how the earth circumnavigates the sun.
(c) The ability to understand the scope of nature.
(d) The ability to understand why a mollusk coils to the left or to the right.

2. What is a commitment of the soul according to the author?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Death.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) Shelter.

3. The painter, Vlaminck, compared the contentment of humans to what?
(a) The security of a snail shell.
(b) The majesty of a cathedral.
(c) The security of a chrysalis.
(d) The refuge a rat finds in his hole or a rabbit in his burrow.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?

2. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?

3. What is a dream house for Bachelard?

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

5. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?

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