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

2. The cooperative efforts of a blind shellfish and patron pea-crab exemplify what sort of behavior?
(a) Rational.
(b) Predatory.
(c) Symbiotic.
(d) Poetic.

3. How does Bachelard describe images that attribute human qualities to a nest?
(a) Childish.
(b) Astute.
(c) Inane.
(d) Obvious.

4. With what did Pasternak identify the nest?
(a) Nature.
(b) The childhood house.
(c) The world and its center.
(d) Poetry.

5. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?
(a) Lost intimacy.
(b) Poetic irony.
(c) Memories lost in a filing cabinet.
(d) Abandonment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?

2. After fish swim into the shell of the shellfish, what does the pea-crab do?

3. In many countries, insists the author, tiny-ness is the center of what?

4. Who imagined a bird turning round to form its nest externally with its breast?

5. In the work of Milosz, how did he indicate that corners are not always safe?

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