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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the opinion of Bachelard, a corner is a place of what sort of motion?
(a) Three-dimensional space.
(b) Immobility.
(c) Vertical and horizontal.
(d) Repetition.

2. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Cosmology.
(c) Anthropo-cosmology.
(d) Homology.

3. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Four, including cellar and attic.
(b) Three, including cellar and attic.
(c) Two, including cellar and attic.
(d) Four, excluding cellar and attic.

4. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Quasimodo considered the cathedral to be claustrophobic, like a snail shell.
(b) Quasimodo inhabited the cathedral, with its nooks and crannies, as a snail inhabits its shell.
(c) Both seem born of their surroundings.
(d) Both are constructed of sturdy materials.

5. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?
(a) Make the world get along better.
(b) Maintain secrecy.
(c) Lead to future discovery.
(d) Create deceptions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?

2. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?

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

4. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?

5. How is Tom Thumb's influence transposed into the sky?

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