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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?
(a) Bachelard.
(b) Bosco.
(c) Baudelaire.
(d) Rilke.

2. Who imagined a snail rolling over and over to form its shell internally?
(a) Pare.
(b) Robinet.
(c) Palissy.
(d) Michelet.

3. What does Bachelard believe is an antidote for claustrophobia?
(a) Light colors.
(b) Spending time away from one's house.
(c) Dynamic houses that open back out to the universe.
(d) Stairways.

4. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.
(b) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.
(c) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(d) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.

5. According to the author, the cuckoo can be compared with which water creature?
(a) The mollusk.
(b) The hermit crab.
(c) The pea-crab.
(d) The shellfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Valery's knowledge of geometry failed him in what regard?

2. The cooperative efforts of a blind shellfish and patron pea-crab exemplify what sort of behavior?

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

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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