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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) Stairways.
(b) Spending time away from one's house.
(c) Light colors.
(d) Dynamic houses that open back out to the universe.

2. Valery's knowledge of geometry failed him in what regard?
(a) The ability to understand how a bird constructs a circular nest.
(b) The ability to understand the scope of nature.
(c) The ability to understand how the earth circumnavigates the sun.
(d) The ability to understand why a mollusk coils to the left or to the right.

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 house-like object when it is torn down.
(c) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(d) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.

4. Which is the best description of Diole?
(a) Poet and painter.
(b) Psychologist and ontologist of under-sea life.
(c) Pnemonologist.
(d) Scientist and entrepreneur.

5. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?
(a) Daydream or contemplate.
(b) Yearn for the childhood house.
(c) Build a dream house.
(d) Cherish their own homes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?

2. Who imagined a snail rolling over and over to form its shell internally?

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

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

5. Which French scholar envisioned a fortress town based on the spiral design of shells?

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