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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Phenomenology of Roundness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a primal image symbolic of a man keeping vigil according to Bachelard?
(a) A man dreaming of poetic imagery.
(b) A hermit's hut.
(c) A childhood home.
(d) A vacant house.

2. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Quasimodo inhabited the cathedral, with its nooks and crannies, as a snail inhabits its shell.
(b) Both seem born of their surroundings.
(c) Both are constructed of sturdy materials.
(d) Quasimodo considered the cathedral to be claustrophobic, like a snail shell.

3. How is Tom Thumb's influence transposed into the sky?
(a) His name was given to a moon of Saturn.
(b) His name was given to the small star that drives the Grand Chariot or Great Bear constellation.
(c) His name was given to a star within the Little Dipper constellation.
(d) His spirit lives within the sun.

4. According to Valery, how does a mollusk build?
(a) From outside, to enter later for protection.
(b) From the remains of old shells.
(c) From the inside as a living form.
(d) From an instinctive poetic vision.

5. Who considered the cosmic dimension of a bird as enclosed in a live ball?
(a) Rilke.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Van Gogh.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?

3. Bachelard cites Michaux's poem "Shade-Haunted Space" to illustrate what?

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

5. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?

(see the answer key)

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