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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?
(a) Ultra-cellars.
(b) Super-cellars.
(c) Mega-attics.
(d) Ultra-towers.

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

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

4. For Bachelard, what does the metaphor of old forests that go on without limit represent?
(a) Immortality.
(b) A yearning for the childhood house.
(c) A search for fantasy.
(d) Man's search deep within.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?

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

3. Bergson called drawers concepts into which what is classified?

4. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?

5. As theorized by the author, forests come from a past, but what forms of vegetation are in the present?

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