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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 experience the loss of childhood memories.
(c) To get lost in the desert is to be a snail out of its shell.
(d) To wander in the desert is to experience the poetic imagery of life.

2. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?
(a) Baudelaire.
(b) Bosco.
(c) Bachelard.
(d) Rilke.

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

4. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?
(a) The hurricane.
(b) Animal life.
(c) Human existence.
(d) The storm cloud.

5. What is unique about the nesting behavior of the cuckoo?
(a) The cuckoo lays its eggs in a foreign nest when the mother is away, so that mother will hatch the cuckoo eggs.
(b) The cuckoo builds its nest below ground, creating an ultra-cellar.
(c) The cuckoo builds its nest on the ground.
(d) The cuckoo hollows out its nest by using its breast.

Short Answer Questions

1. After fish swim into the shell of the shellfish, what does the pea-crab do?

2. Bachelard prefers to use the term "vast" to describe what?

3. When a phenomenologist observes an extravagant daydream, what does the psychoanalyst see?

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

5. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?

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