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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?
(a) A humble house with no apparent resistance on a hillside above the city.
(b) A massive house, well fortified and set alone on an island.
(c) A massive house, well fortified and on a hillside above the city.
(d) A humble house with no apparent resistance set alone on an island.

2. Central to the author's main theme in "Nests," how does a simple image avoid intimidation?
(a) Color.
(b) Rhythm and rhyme.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Majesty.

3. What does Bachelard say makes miniatures of all things seen?
(a) Thoughts of death and afterlife.
(b) Thoughts of the universe's infiniteness.
(c) Consideration of the nest and the shell.
(d) Distance to the horizon.

4. What does every corner or angle in a house symbolize for Bachelard?
(a) Impassable boundaries.
(b) Blocked thought.
(c) Solitude for the imagination.
(d) Memories lost in cobwebs.

5. In the words of Bachelard, a mollusk that weighs fourteen pounds but with a shell that weighs five hundred or more pounds can be described in what way?
(a) An immense dream of nature.
(b) An impossibility.
(c) A miracle.
(d) A metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?

2. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?

3. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?

4. How is a nest connected to the foliage of the forest according to the author?

5. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?

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