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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who imagined a bird turning round to form its nest externally with its breast?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Palissy.
(c) Robinet.
(d) Pare.

3. What is a dream house for Bachelard?
(a) A house that exists only in the poetic mind.
(b) The largest house in the area.
(c) A house accessible only in dreams.
(d) A home one dreams of owning or a home one purchases and alters.

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

5. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?
(a) In cities.
(b) In the summer.
(c) In the countryside.
(d) In the winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best description of Diole?

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

3. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?

4. According to the author, the cuckoo can be compared with which water creature?

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

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