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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?
(a) Scientist.
(b) Psychoanalyst.
(c) Poet.
(d) Architect.

2. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?
(a) Ultra-towers.
(b) Ultra-cellars.
(c) Super-cellars.
(d) Mega-attics.

3. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Two, including cellar and attic.
(b) Four, including cellar and attic.
(c) Three, including cellar and attic.
(d) Four, excluding cellar and attic.

4. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?
(a) Relax at home.
(b) Study psychoanalysis.
(c) Establish a metaphysics of the imagination.
(d) Understand causality.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Due to the intimacy of cherished objects, states Bachelard, housework can become what sort of activity?

3. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?

4. What is a center of order in a house, according to Bachelard?

5. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphor of drawers to describe the human brain?

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