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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what did Pasternak identify the nest?
(a) The world and its center.
(b) The childhood house.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Nature.

2. How did Bosco transform Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) He claimed that the brain is more like a wardrobe with secret space.
(b) He claimed that the brain's filing cabinet is used only to file away memories that will be forgotton.
(c) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet, but the filing cabinet is a brain.
(d) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet but an unstructured jumble of information.

3. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?
(a) A dog.
(b) A cat.
(c) Man.
(d) A snail.

4. Victor Hugo's literary character, Quasimodo, described what as "egg, nest, house, country and universe"?
(a) Notre Dame Cathedral.
(b) Canterbury Cathedral.
(c) Aachen Cathedral.
(d) The Taj Mahal.

5. Bachelard believes that, for Baudelaire, immensity is a category of what?
(a) Past and present.
(b) Poetic imagination.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Memories.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard theorizes that an observer must pass through what sort of threshold to experience an inversion of perspective?

2. As experienced by Bachelard, who sees only negative sublimation?

3. What enables a person to hear differently in the opinion of the author?

4. In the opinion of Bachelard, a corner is a place of what sort of motion?

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

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