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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Spring.

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

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

5. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?
(a) Stick-figure drawings.
(b) The house where one was born.
(c) The phenomenology of motherhood.
(d) Nursery rhymes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

2. What is anthropo-cosmology?

3. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?

4. What does Bachelard believe is an antidote for claustrophobia?

5. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?

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