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

2. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?
(a) Every level.
(b) The sleeping level.
(c) The attic.
(d) The cellar.

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

4. What is another word for ontology?
(a) Causality.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Beingness.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

5. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Four, excluding cellar and attic.
(b) Four, including cellar and attic.
(c) Three, including cellar and attic.
(d) Two, including cellar and attic.

Short Answer Questions

1. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?

2. Bergson called drawers concepts into which what is classified?

3. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?

4. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?

5. Due to the intimacy of cherished objects, states Bachelard, housework can become what sort of activity?

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