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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 a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?
(a) A childhood home.
(b) A hermit's hut.
(c) A man dreaming of poetic imagery.
(d) A vacant house.

2. For psychoanalysts, what do conflicted locks and keys in dreams symbolize?
(a) Temptations.
(b) Sexual intimacy.
(c) New discoveries.
(d) Repression.

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

4. For Bachelard, why is the inner space of a wardrobe an intimate space?
(a) Clothing is part of one's persona.
(b) Not everyone sees it.
(c) Clothing reveals dreams.
(d) When closed, the inner space disappears.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what iconic Van Gogh image does the author compare a bird's nest on the ground?

2. How does Bachelard refer to words?

3. According to the author, the cuckoo can be compared with which water creature?

4. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?

5. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?

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