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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?
(a) Understand causality.
(b) Establish a metaphysics of the imagination.
(c) Relax at home.
(d) Study psychoanalysis.

2. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(b) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.
(c) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.
(d) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.

3. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?
(a) The sense of vertical rising.
(b) The sense of escape.
(c) The sense of superiority.
(d) The sense of being closer to God.

4. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Externalities, that which we say.
(b) Externalities, that which we hear.
(c) Internalities, that which we say.
(d) Internalities, that which we hear.

5. When a phenomenologist observes an extravagant daydream, what does the psychoanalyst see?
(a) Sexually-obsessed behavior.
(b) Oneiric behavior.
(c) Anthropo-cosmology.
(d) Ontogenesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which level of a house is protected with strong beams and rafters, and, states the author, has darkness that disappears in daylight?

2. Poets, states Bachelard, use words to bring together what two entities?

3. Bachelard theorizes that dreams of nests inspire what?

4. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?

5. Who, according to Bachelard, sees everything as small from atop their towers of domination?

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