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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 Bachelard, what term can describe the emergence of being through poetry and contemplation of poetic immensity?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Death.
(c) Calm.
(d) Psychic transformation.

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

3. When a phenomenologist observes an extravagant daydream, what does the psychoanalyst see?
(a) Oneiric behavior.
(b) Ontogenesis.
(c) Anthropo-cosmology.
(d) Sexually-obsessed behavior.

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

5. What is able to invent forms emerging from shells that are beyond scientific research according to Bachelard's theories based on the work of Baltrusaitis?
(a) The mollusk.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Faith.
(d) The imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to the intimacy of cherished objects, states Bachelard, housework can become what sort of activity?

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

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

4. What is a dream house for Bachelard?

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

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