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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) The spoken word.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Image.

2. What does Bachelard believe is an antidote for claustrophobia?
(a) Dynamic houses that open back out to the universe.
(b) Spending time away from one's house.
(c) Stairways.
(d) Light colors.

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

4. After fish swim into the shell of the shellfish, what does the pea-crab do?
(a) Eat the shellfish.
(b) Steal the fish from the shellfish.
(c) Open its shell.
(d) Nibble at the shellfish body as a signal to close.

5. Poets, states Bachelard, use words to bring together what two entities?
(a) Inside and outside.
(b) Earth and sky.
(c) Individual and universe.
(d) Past and present.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bachelard, which level of a house is always dark and shadowy, like the unconscious?

2. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?

3. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?

4. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?

5. What is the eighteenth-century theory that states the purpose of life is to make shells?

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