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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dialectics of Outside and Inside.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?
(a) Dates of events are less important than the sense of where they occur.
(b) The soul cannot be at peace unless residing in the childhood home.
(c) When a house is torn down, the memories fade.
(d) Dates of events are more important than the sense of where they occur.

2. Who claimed that only the image can keep up with the changes of nature?
(a) Vlaminck.
(b) Michelet.
(c) Bachelard.
(d) Pasternak.

3. What, in the opinion of Bachelard, moves the dreamer into the world of infinity?
(a) Phenomenology.
(b) Immensity.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Boundaries.

4. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?
(a) A massive house, well fortified and on a hillside above the city.
(b) A massive house, well fortified and set alone on an island.
(c) A humble house with no apparent resistance set alone on an island.
(d) A humble house with no apparent resistance on a hillside above the city.

5. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?
(a) Bachelard.
(b) Bosco.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Baudelaire.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?

4. Valery's knowledge of geometry failed him in what regard?

5. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?

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