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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through House and Universe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?
(a) Fears related to a house's interior space.
(b) Fear of steep hillsides.
(c) Happy space that is eulogized and enjoyed.
(d) The nature of a plot of land, whether flat or sloped.

2. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?
(a) Psychoanalyst.
(b) Poet.
(c) Scientist.
(d) Architect.

3. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?
(a) The idea of a house.
(b) Science.
(c) The idea of a painting.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

4. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Poetic structure.
(c) Intimacy.
(d) Architecture.

5. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Objective irony.
(c) Poetic irony.
(d) Desire to move to a new house.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?

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

3. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?

4. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?

5. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?

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