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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?
(a) A humble house with no apparent resistance on a hillside above the city.
(b) A humble house with no apparent resistance set alone on an island.
(c) A massive house, well fortified and on a hillside above the city.
(d) A massive house, well fortified and set alone on an island.

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

5. For Bachelard, what does the metaphor of old forests that go on without limit represent?
(a) Immortality.
(b) A yearning for the childhood house.
(c) Man's search deep within.
(d) A search for fantasy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is anthropo-cosmology?

3. According to Valery, how does a mollusk build?

4. Baudelaire used the term "vast" to describe what?

5. According to Bachelard, what term can describe the emergence of being through poetry and contemplation of poetic immensity?

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