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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. What is the ability to imagine?
(a) A major power of human nature.
(b) A waste of the intelligent mind.
(c) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.
(d) A symptom of mental illness.

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

3. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?
(a) The personality of the artist.
(b) Market value of art.
(c) Mental stability.
(d) Isolated poetic images.

4. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Externalities, that which we say.
(b) Externalities, that which we hear.
(c) Internalities, that which we hear.
(d) Internalities, that which we say.

5. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?
(a) The imagination.
(b) Poetry.
(c) The new house.
(d) The soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?

2. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?

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

4. What is a commitment of the soul according to the author?

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

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