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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) Dry poetics.
(b) Pop psychology.
(c) Negative objectivity.
(d) Dry rationalism.

2. Who created the tiny character Tom Thumb?
(a) Paris.
(b) Hugo.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Van Gogh.

3. How is a nest connected to the foliage of the forest according to the author?
(a) A nest is at the mercy of surrounding foliage during windstorms.
(b) Both inspire daydreaming and poetry.
(c) It is hidden by the foliage, and constructed from the foliage.
(d) Both are wonders of nature.

4. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?
(a) Locked boxes prevent intimacy.
(b) Locks give negative energy to a house.
(c) Locks can be broken and trick boxes can be figured out.
(d) Locked boxes defy discovery.

5. What is contained within Milosz's corners?
(a) Objects remembered by a dreamer in solitude.
(b) Cobwebs.
(c) Memories of childhood.
(d) Poetic images.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who imagined a snail rolling over and over to form its shell internally?

2. Which level of a house is protected with strong beams and rafters, and, states the author, has darkness that disappears in daylight?

3. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?

4. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?

5. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?

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