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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As experienced by Bachelard, who sees only negative sublimation?
(a) The poet.
(b) The psychologist.
(c) The scientist.
(d) The psychoanalyst.

2. According to the author, the cuckoo can be compared with which water creature?
(a) The mollusk.
(b) The hermit crab.
(c) The shellfish.
(d) The pea-crab.

3. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) A forgotten image.
(b) Appreciation for rhymes.
(c) Fear of isolation.
(d) Rhythmic thoughts.

4. Why does a conchologist classify shells?
(a) To better understand mollusks.
(b) To discover diversity.
(c) To determine the age of the planet.
(d) To find the origin of creation.

5. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Quasimodo inhabited the cathedral, with its nooks and crannies, as a snail inhabits its shell.
(b) Both seem born of their surroundings.
(c) Quasimodo considered the cathedral to be claustrophobic, like a snail shell.
(d) Both are constructed of sturdy materials.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?

2. Bachelard believes that, for Baudelaire, immensity is a category of what?

3. In folklore and poetry, as described by Bachelard, how is image size transposed?

4. What, in the opinion of Bachelard, moves the dreamer into the world of infinity?

5. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?

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