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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) An impossibility.
(b) An immense dream of nature.
(c) A metaphor.
(d) A miracle.

2. Central to the author's main theme in "Nests," how does a simple image avoid intimidation?
(a) Color.
(b) Rhythm and rhyme.
(c) Majesty.
(d) Repetition.

3. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?
(a) Psychoanalysis.
(b) The structure of a house.
(c) Isolated poetic images.
(d) The structure of a poem.

4. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?
(a) New memories.
(b) Poetic daydreams.
(c) Poetic descriptions of the night.
(d) New resolutions to nightmares.

5. The cooperative efforts of a blind shellfish and patron pea-crab exemplify what sort of behavior?
(a) Symbiotic.
(b) Poetic.
(c) Rational.
(d) Predatory.

Short Answer Questions

1. As theorized by the author, forests come from a past, but what forms of vegetation are in the present?

2. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?

3. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?

4. For Bachelard, what is the dichotomy of doors?

5. Sartre was struck by what realization of Hughes's literary character, Emily?

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