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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Poetic fancy.
(b) The universe.
(c) The inhabiting function.
(d) Wonders of nature.

2. What is a dream house for Bachelard?
(a) The largest house in the area.
(b) A home one dreams of owning or a home one purchases and alters.
(c) A house that exists only in the poetic mind.
(d) A house accessible only in dreams.

3. What does a phenomenologist look for?
(a) New theories.
(b) Poetic inspiration.
(c) Sexually-obsessed behavior.
(d) Observable facts or events.

4. Who, according to Bachelard, sees everything as small from atop their towers of domination?
(a) Poets.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Scientists.
(d) World leaders.

5. For Bachelard, what does the metaphor of old forests that go on without limit represent?
(a) A yearning for the childhood house.
(b) Man's search deep within.
(c) A search for fantasy.
(d) Immortality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Tom Thumb's stature become believable?

3. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?

4. Details and insignificant features, such as the curve of a molding, may inspire what, according to Bachelard?

5. What is anthropo-cosmology?

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