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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?
(a) It casts a pall of oldness and staleness over a poetic image.
(b) It creates a confusion of familial memories.
(c) Poetic phenomenology is always of the future.
(d) It is too easily used and explains nothing.

2. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?
(a) Rilke.
(b) Bachelard.
(c) Bosco.
(d) Baudelaire.

3. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?
(a) From the sturdy chrysalis, the delicate butterfly emerges.
(b) From the childhood chrysalis, the butterfly moves to a new house.
(c) From the unnoticed chrysalis, the flamboyant butterfly flies.
(d) From the cottage chrysalis, the winged manor flies.

4. The cynical character created by the poet Milosz reminisces where?
(a) In a boat.
(b) In a tree.
(c) In his palace.
(d) In church.

5. What, in the opinion of Bachelard, moves the dreamer into the world of infinity?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Immensity.
(c) Boundaries.
(d) Phenomenology.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Bachelard, the well-being of a nest diminishes what?

2. Who lives in the new that guides the phenomenologist in Bachelard's opinion?

3. Bachelard prefers to use the term "vast" to describe what?

4. For psychoanalysts, what do conflicted locks and keys in dreams symbolize?

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

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