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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?
(a) Dates of events are less important than the sense of where they occur.
(b) Dates of events are more important than the sense of where they occur.
(c) When a house is torn down, the memories fade.
(d) The soul cannot be at peace unless residing in the childhood home.

2. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?
(a) Vlaminck.
(b) Pare.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Pasternak.

3. To what iconic Van Gogh image does the author compare a bird's nest on the ground?
(a) Corn stalk.
(b) Childhood home.
(c) Thatched cottage.
(d) Sunflower.

4. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?
(a) Music.
(b) Emerging from one's home to experience the world.
(c) Poetry or daydreaming.
(d) Spirituality.

5. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?
(a) In the winter.
(b) In the summer.
(c) In the countryside.
(d) In cities.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?

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

3. Victor Hugo's literary character, Quasimodo, described what as "egg, nest, house, country and universe"?

4. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?

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

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