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

2. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?
(a) Drafty places which lead to pheumonia and other respiratory complaints.
(b) All the ways in which an individual inhabits his vital space.
(c) Paranormal presences.
(d) The spiritual flow between rooms and levels.

3. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) Subjective feelings and dreams.
(b) The objects it contains.
(c) Its decor.
(d) Subjective matters of taste and style.

4. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) The spoken word.
(c) Image.
(d) Poetry.

5. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Frequently, to stimulate creativity.
(b) Rarely, only to add complexity to a poem.
(c) Rarely, only when words are inadequate.
(d) Frequently, to add color and variety to expression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?

2. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?

3. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?

4. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?

5. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?

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