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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?
(a) When a new family moves in.
(b) When it is assailed by elements of nature.
(c) When it is immortalized by a poet.
(d) When it is vacant.

2. What does Bachelard say makes miniatures of all things seen?
(a) Thoughts of the universe's infiniteness.
(b) Distance to the horizon.
(c) Consideration of the nest and the shell.
(d) Thoughts of death and afterlife.

3. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?
(a) The cellar.
(b) The sleeping level.
(c) The attic.
(d) Every level.

4. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) It represents forgotten memories.
(b) It represents the human need for secrecy and confinement.
(c) It inspires the poetic spirit.
(d) It has more to see and experience than an open chest.

5. An inversion of perspective takes us where according to Bachelard?
(a) Back to childhood with the reality of toys.
(b) To the future where all is possible.
(c) To a rejection of scientific thought.
(d) To the horizon where everything appears smaller.

Short Answer Questions

1. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?

2. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?

3. Through a magnifying glass, what does the first view of any phenomenon become in the author's opinion?

4. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?

5. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?

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