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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?
(a) A barrier against evil.
(b) A finality to mourning.
(c) A chrysalis for new life.
(d) The security of surrounding our inner self at death and burial.

2. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Image.
(d) The spoken word.

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

4. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) Dry poetics.
(b) Negative objectivity.
(c) Dry rationalism.
(d) Pop psychology.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

4. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?

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

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