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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?
(a) Architect.
(b) Psychoanalyst.
(c) Poet.
(d) Scientist.

2. What enables a person to hear differently in the opinion of the author?
(a) Learning a foreign language.
(b) Learning the language of poetry.
(c) Studying metaphysics.
(d) Closing his eyes.

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

4. Which French scholar envisioned a fortress town based on the spiral design of shells?
(a) Robinet.
(b) Michelet.
(c) Palissy.
(d) Bachelard.

5. Bachelard believes that, for Baudelaire, immensity is a category of what?
(a) Memories.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Past and present.
(d) Poetic imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Bachelard, why is the inner space of a wardrobe an intimate space?

2. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphor of drawers to describe the human brain?

3. What does every corner or angle in a house symbolize for Bachelard?

4. What does a phenomenologist look for?

5. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?

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