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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who claimed that only the image can keep up with the changes of nature?
(a) Vlaminck.
(b) Bachelard.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Pasternak.

2. How do psychoanalysts refer to the duality of self?
(a) Poet and scientist.
(b) Open and closed.
(c) Introvert and extrovert.
(d) Contained and universal.

3. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?
(a) The city house, or apartment, is usually not one's childhood home.
(b) The city house, or apartment, has no security because too many people live too close together.
(c) The city house, or apartment, has no intimacy because it shares common walls.
(d) The city house, or apartment, has no verticality because elevators have replaced stairs.

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

5. Where is the character, Emily, when she recognizes that she has withdrawn into herself?
(a) Her palace.
(b) Climbing a tree.
(c) Her childhood home.
(d) A boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who imagined a snail rolling over and over to form its shell internally?

2. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?

3. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?

4. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?

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

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