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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ammonite shells spiral around what sort of axis?
(a) Geometric.
(b) Circular.
(c) Logarithmic.
(d) Rectangular.

2. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?
(a) Unity and complexity.
(b) Poetry and science.
(c) House and home.
(d) Height and width.

3. Baudelaire used the term "vast" to describe what?
(a) The variety of words and meanings.
(b) The infinity of intimate space.
(c) The language of poets.
(d) Intimate meaning, including synthesis, perspective, unity and movement.

4. Valery's knowledge of geometry failed him in what regard?
(a) The ability to understand the scope of nature.
(b) The ability to understand why a mollusk coils to the left or to the right.
(c) The ability to understand how a bird constructs a circular nest.
(d) The ability to understand how the earth circumnavigates the sun.

5. How is Tom Thumb killed?
(a) By a snail.
(b) By a grain of dust.
(c) By the footsteps of a larger man.
(d) By the kick of an ant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?

2. Why did Diole study and write about the desert?

3. What enables a person to hear differently in the opinion of the author?

4. With what did Pasternak identify the nest?

5. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?

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