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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?
(a) The house where one was born.
(b) The phenomenology of motherhood.
(c) Stick-figure drawings.
(d) Nursery rhymes.

2. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?
(a) The sense of escape.
(b) The sense of vertical rising.
(c) The sense of being closer to God.
(d) The sense of superiority.

3. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?
(a) Lost intimacy.
(b) Memories lost in a filing cabinet.
(c) Abandonment.
(d) Poetic irony.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?

2. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?

3. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?

4. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?

5. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?

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