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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?
(a) The cellar.
(b) Every level.
(c) The attic.
(d) The sleeping level.

2. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?
(a) A childhood home.
(b) A vacant house.
(c) A man dreaming of poetic imagery.
(d) A hermit's hut.

3. What is another word for ontology?
(a) Causality.
(b) Beingness.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) Poetry.

4. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?
(a) Music.
(b) Emerging from one's home to experience the world.
(c) Poetry or daydreaming.
(d) Spirituality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?

2. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

3. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?

4. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?

5. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?

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