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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) Baudelaire.
(c) Bosco.
(d) Rilke.

2. In folklore and poetry, as described by Bachelard, how is image size transposed?
(a) Back and forth from large to small.
(b) Image size has no meaning.
(c) Larger with the passage of time.
(d) Smaller with the loss of memories.

3. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?
(a) Psychoanalyst.
(b) Philosopher.
(c) Artist.
(d) Psychologist.

4. For Bachelard, what do primal images of nests and shells offer to a person?
(a) They offer freedom to create poetry.
(b) They allow a person safe and pleasurable withdrawal into his corner.
(c) They suggest a return to the womb.
(d) They offer a cure for claustrophobia.

5. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?
(a) The hurricane.
(b) The storm cloud.
(c) Animal life.
(d) Human existence.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which level of a house is protected with strong beams and rafters, and, states the author, has darkness that disappears in daylight?

4. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?

5. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?

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