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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?
(a) Fears related to a house's interior space.
(b) Fear of steep hillsides.
(c) Happy space that is eulogized and enjoyed.
(d) The nature of a plot of land, whether flat or sloped.

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

3. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) The universe.
(b) Poetic fancy.
(c) The inhabiting function.
(d) Wonders of nature.

4. Bergson called drawers concepts into which what is classified?
(a) Experience.
(b) Knowledge or thinking.
(c) Psychological development.
(d) Dreams.

5. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?
(a) Locks give negative energy to a house.
(b) Locked boxes prevent intimacy.
(c) Locked boxes defy discovery.
(d) Locks can be broken and trick boxes can be figured out.

Short Answer Questions

1. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?

2. How does Tom Thumb's stature become believable?

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

4. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?

5. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?

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