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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, the cuckoo can be compared with which water creature?
(a) The mollusk.
(b) The shellfish.
(c) The hermit crab.
(d) The pea-crab.

2. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?
(a) The human body that encases the soul like an envelope.
(b) The creation of earth.
(c) The hut.
(d) The origin of man.

3. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.
(b) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.
(c) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(d) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.

4. Bachelard prefers to use the term "vast" to describe what?
(a) The variety of words and meanings.
(b) Intimate meaning, including synthesis, perspective, unity and movement.
(c) The language of poets.
(d) The infinity of intimate space.

5. According to Valery, how does a mollusk build?
(a) From the inside as a living form.
(b) From the remains of old shells.
(c) From outside, to enter later for protection.
(d) From an instinctive poetic vision.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?

2. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?

3. Bachelard believes that, for Baudelaire, immensity is a category of what?

4. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?

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

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