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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?
(a) Phenomenological value.
(b) Humanistic value.
(c) Aesthetic value.
(d) Artistic value.

2. How do psychoanalysts refer to the duality of self?
(a) Open and closed.
(b) Poet and scientist.
(c) Introvert and extrovert.
(d) Contained and universal.

3. What is able to invent forms emerging from shells that are beyond scientific research according to Bachelard's theories based on the work of Baltrusaitis?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Faith.
(c) The mollusk.
(d) The imagination.

4. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) Dry rationalism.
(b) Negative objectivity.
(c) Pop psychology.
(d) Dry poetics.

5. Bachelard believes that philosophers are condemned by their equals to live on which floor of a house, metaphorically speaking?
(a) Stairways.
(b) The ground floor.
(c) The attic.
(d) The cellar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea, prevalent in novels, did Sartre seek to illuminate?

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

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

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

5. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

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