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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unique about the nesting behavior of the cuckoo?
(a) The cuckoo builds its nest on the ground.
(b) The cuckoo builds its nest below ground, creating an ultra-cellar.
(c) The cuckoo hollows out its nest by using its breast.
(d) The cuckoo lays its eggs in a foreign nest when the mother is away, so that mother will hatch the cuckoo eggs.

2. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?
(a) The human body that encases the soul like an envelope.
(b) The creation of earth.
(c) The hut.
(d) The origin of man.

3. In the words of Bachelard, a mollusk that weighs fourteen pounds but with a shell that weighs five hundred or more pounds can be described in what way?
(a) An impossibility.
(b) An immense dream of nature.
(c) A miracle.
(d) A metaphor.

4. As theorized by the author, forests come from a past, but what forms of vegetation are in the present?
(a) Individual trees.
(b) Seedlings and sprouts.
(c) Fields and meadows.
(d) Flowers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Baudelaire used the term "vast" to describe what?

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. According to Bachelard, what term can describe the emergence of being through poetry and contemplation of poetic immensity?

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