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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. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?
(a) To protect property.
(b) To shelter daydreaming.
(c) To define boundaries.
(d) To create cities.

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

3. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) It represents forgotten memories.
(b) It has more to see and experience than an open chest.
(c) It inspires the poetic spirit.
(d) It represents the human need for secrecy and confinement.

4. Bergson called drawers concepts into which what is classified?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Experience.
(c) Knowledge or thinking.
(d) Psychological development.

5. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(b) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.
(c) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.
(d) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?

3. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?

4. What is a dream house for Bachelard?

5. What is another word for ontology?

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