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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?
(a) House and home.
(b) Poetry and science.
(c) Height and width.
(d) Unity and complexity.

2. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?
(a) In the imagination.
(b) In childhood homes.
(c) In criminal cellars.
(d) In dark attics.

3. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?
(a) Aesthetic value.
(b) Phenomenological value.
(c) Humanistic value.
(d) Artistic value.

4. In Bachelard's topoanalysis, in which level of a house does common sense live?
(a) The cellar.
(b) The attic.
(c) Stairways.
(d) The ground floor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who imagined a bird turning round to form its nest externally with its breast?

2. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?

3. Due to the intimacy of cherished objects, states Bachelard, housework can become what sort of activity?

4. Who often ignores the miniature worlds and objects in fairy tales in the author's opinion?

5. How did Bosco transform Bergson's drawer metaphor?

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