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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The painter, Vlaminck, compared the contentment of humans to what?
(a) The majesty of a cathedral.
(b) The security of a snail shell.
(c) The refuge a rat finds in his hole or a rabbit in his burrow.
(d) The security of a chrysalis.

2. What is the eighteenth-century theory that states the purpose of life is to make shells?
(a) Ontology.
(b) Ontogenesis.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Homology.

3. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?
(a) Poetic imagery.
(b) The magic of rainbows.
(c) The refuge of the forest.
(d) The lover's nest.

4. In what way for Bachelard do fantasy images have some objectivity?
(a) From a sense of past lives.
(b) From a degree of shared phenomenological similarity.
(c) From a sense of shared experience.
(d) From a belief in supernatural presences.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For Bachelard, what do primal images of nests and shells offer to a person?

2. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

3. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?

4. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?

5. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?

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