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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bachelard believe is an antidote for claustrophobia?
(a) Spending time away from one's house.
(b) Stairways.
(c) Light colors.
(d) Dynamic houses that open back out to the universe.

2. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?
(a) Winter.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

3. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?
(a) Small and dark.
(b) A dream house.
(c) Cold, motionless, and rigid.
(d) Happy, with doorknobs and chimney smoke.

4. Why did Diole study and write about the desert?
(a) To wander in the desert is to change space and enter a psychically innovative one.
(b) To get lost in the desert is to be a snail out of its shell.
(c) To wander in the desert is to experience the poetic imagery of life.
(d) To get lost in the desert is to experience the loss of childhood memories.

5. After fish swim into the shell of the shellfish, what does the pea-crab do?
(a) Eat the shellfish.
(b) Open its shell.
(c) Nibble at the shellfish body as a signal to close.
(d) Steal the fish from the shellfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Bachelard, what does the metaphor of old forests that go on without limit represent?

2. What is the eighteenth-century theory that states the purpose of life is to make shells?

3. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?

4. What is anthropo-cosmology?

5. As theorized by the author, forests come from a past, but what forms of vegetation are in the present?

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