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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 absolute bird for Michelet?
(a) Constructing a nest.
(b) The being of round life.
(c) Dreams of flying.
(d) The cuckoo.

2. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?
(a) Psychoanalysis.
(b) The idea of a house.
(c) Science.
(d) The idea of a painting.

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

4. In the work of Milosz, how did he indicate that corners are not always safe?
(a) Corners are sometimes bug-filled.
(b) Corners are sometimes hiding places.
(c) Corners are pointy when inverted.
(d) Corners can be hard and cold.

5. Who imagined a bird turning round to form its nest externally with its breast?
(a) Pare.
(b) Michelet.
(c) Palissy.
(d) Robinet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?

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

3. Valery's knowledge of geometry failed him in what regard?

4. Who put forth the statement that every being seems in itself round?

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

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