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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 forgotten by Milosz's cynical character?
(a) Recent happy times.
(b) Childhood memories.
(c) Everything.
(d) Nothing.

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

3. Sartre was struck by what realization of Hughes's literary character, Emily?
(a) She was she.
(b) She was a poet.
(c) She was the universe.
(d) She was an invented child.

4. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Poetic structure.
(c) Intimacy.
(d) Architecture.

5. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?
(a) Poetic phenomenology is always of the future.
(b) It is too easily used and explains nothing.
(c) It creates a confusion of familial memories.
(d) It casts a pall of oldness and staleness over a poetic image.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?

2. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?

3. Who claimed that only the image can keep up with the changes of nature?

4. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?

5. Contrary to the intellectual philosopher, states Bachelard, a poet may use words in what way?

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