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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a center of order in a house, according to Bachelard?
(a) Decorative objects.
(b) The wardrobe.
(c) The brain.
(d) Stairways.

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

3. Which French scholar envisioned a fortress town based on the spiral design of shells?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Bachelard.
(c) Robinet.
(d) Palissy.

4. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?
(a) The storm cloud.
(b) Animal life.
(c) The hurricane.
(d) Human existence.

5. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphor of drawers to describe the human brain?
(a) He wonders how reason determines which drawer should contain each new object.
(b) Items get lost in drawers.
(c) He wonders how objects would be retrieved from the drawers.
(d) A chest of drawers is finite, while the brain's capacity is infinite.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unique about the nesting behavior of the cuckoo?

2. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?

3. Who lives in the new that guides the phenomenologist in Bachelard's opinion?

4. When a phenomenologist observes an extravagant daydream, what does the psychoanalyst see?

5. What is the eighteenth-century theory that states the purpose of life is to make shells?

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