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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. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?
(a) Psychoanalyst.
(b) Artist.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Psychologist.

2. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Fear of isolation.
(b) A forgotten image.
(c) Appreciation for rhymes.
(d) Rhythmic thoughts.

3. What is a commitment of the soul according to the author?
(a) Shelter.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Death.

4. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?
(a) The city house, or apartment, has no verticality because elevators have replaced stairs.
(b) The city house, or apartment, is usually not one's childhood home.
(c) The city house, or apartment, has no intimacy because it shares common walls.
(d) The city house, or apartment, has no security because too many people live too close together.

5. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?
(a) Ultra-cellars.
(b) Superimposed cellars.
(c) Ultra-boxes.
(d) Superimposed boxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?

2. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?

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

4. What is another word for ontology?

5. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?

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