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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) Psychic transformation.
(b) Calm.
(c) Death.
(d) Insanity.

2. 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) Faith.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) The imagination.
(d) The mollusk.

3. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) Subjective matters of taste and style.
(b) The objects it contains.
(c) Subjective feelings and dreams.
(d) Its decor.

4. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?
(a) When it is vacant.
(b) When it is assailed by elements of nature.
(c) When it is immortalized by a poet.
(d) When a new family moves in.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the paradox of an old forest, as explained by the author?

3. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?

4. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?

5. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?

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