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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. In the words of Bachelard, a mollusk that weighs fourteen pounds but with a shell that weighs five hundred or more pounds can be described in what way?
(a) A metaphor.
(b) An immense dream of nature.
(c) A miracle.
(d) An impossibility.

2. 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) Nibble at the shellfish body as a signal to close.
(d) Open its shell.

3. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.
(b) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(c) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.
(d) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.

4. How did Bosco transform Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet, but the filing cabinet is a brain.
(b) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet but an unstructured jumble of information.
(c) He claimed that the brain is more like a wardrobe with secret space.
(d) He claimed that the brain's filing cabinet is used only to file away memories that will be forgotton.

5. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) Its decor.
(b) Subjective feelings and dreams.
(c) Subjective matters of taste and style.
(d) The objects it contains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for the fear of open space?

2. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?

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

4. The cynical character created by the poet Milosz reminisces where?

5. In the opinion of Bachelard, a corner is a place of what sort of motion?

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