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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the ability to imagine?
(a) A waste of the intelligent mind.
(b) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.
(c) A symptom of mental illness.
(d) A major power of human nature.

2. How is a nest connected to the foliage of the forest according to the author?
(a) A nest is at the mercy of surrounding foliage during windstorms.
(b) Both inspire daydreaming and poetry.
(c) Both are wonders of nature.
(d) It is hidden by the foliage, and constructed from the foliage.

3. A woodpecker pecking in a tree can be compared to what in the author's continuing metaphor?
(a) A poetic anomoly.
(b) Annoying neighbors who create a disturbance.
(c) A psychoanalyst probing the psyche.
(d) A storm ravaging a house.

4. What is a dream house for Bachelard?
(a) A house accessible only in dreams.
(b) The largest house in the area.
(c) A home one dreams of owning or a home one purchases and alters.
(d) A house that exists only in the poetic mind.

5. What does a metaphor present?
(a) An intangible object described in full detail.
(b) A tangible object as an intangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.
(c) A tangible object described in full detail.
(d) An intangible object as a tangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?

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

3. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?

4. After fish swim into the shell of the shellfish, what does the pea-crab do?

5. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?

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