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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?
(a) Causality.
(b) Beingness.
(c) Reverberation.
(d) Poetic imagery.

2. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?
(a) A dog.
(b) A snail.
(c) Man.
(d) A cat.

3. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?
(a) In the summer.
(b) In the winter.
(c) In cities.
(d) In the countryside.

4. What is unique about the nesting behavior of the cuckoo?
(a) The cuckoo builds its nest on the ground.
(b) The cuckoo lays its eggs in a foreign nest when the mother is away, so that mother will hatch the cuckoo eggs.
(c) The cuckoo builds its nest below ground, creating an ultra-cellar.
(d) The cuckoo hollows out its nest by using its breast.

5. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?
(a) Poetic descriptions of the night.
(b) Poetic daydreams.
(c) New memories.
(d) New resolutions to nightmares.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which French scholar envisioned a fortress town based on the spiral design of shells?

4. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?

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

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