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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a phenomenologist observes an extravagant daydream, what does the psychoanalyst see?
(a) Anthropo-cosmology.
(b) Sexually-obsessed behavior.
(c) Oneiric behavior.
(d) Ontogenesis.

2. How is Tom Thumb's influence transposed into the sky?
(a) His name was given to the small star that drives the Grand Chariot or Great Bear constellation.
(b) His spirit lives within the sun.
(c) His name was given to a star within the Little Dipper constellation.
(d) His name was given to a moon of Saturn.

3. What is contained within Milosz's corners?
(a) Poetic images.
(b) Memories of childhood.
(c) Cobwebs.
(d) Objects remembered by a dreamer in solitude.

4. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?
(a) When a house is torn down, the memories fade.
(b) Dates of events are less important than the sense of where they occur.
(c) The soul cannot be at peace unless residing in the childhood home.
(d) Dates of events are more important than the sense of where they occur.

5. What is forgotten by Milosz's cynical character?
(a) Recent happy times.
(b) Everything.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Childhood memories.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do psychoanalysts refer to the duality of self?

2. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?

3. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?

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

5. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?

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