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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Corners.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Bachelard refer to words?
(a) Little houses with their own sense of space.
(b) Leaves in an endless forest.
(c) Locked boxes filled with mysteries.
(d) Shells that conceal identies.
2. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?
(a) Anthropo-cosmology.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Homology.
(d) Cosmology.
3. To what iconic Van Gogh image does the author compare a bird's nest on the ground?
(a) Corn stalk.
(b) Childhood home.
(c) Sunflower.
(d) Thatched cottage.
4. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?
(a) Cellar fears may be reasoned away.
(b) Cellar fears indicate childhood trauma.
(c) Cellar fears precede mental illness.
(d) Cellar fears take longer to fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
5. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Two, including cellar and attic.
(b) Three, including cellar and attic.
(c) Four, including cellar and attic.
(d) Four, excluding cellar and attic.
Short Answer Questions
1. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?
2. Bachelard believes that philosophers are condemned by their equals to live on which floor of a house, metaphorically speaking?
3. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
4. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?
5. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?
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