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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. Who is able to state their view in a few words, expressing concise truth that may be proven subsequently?
(a) Psychoanalysts.
(b) Ontologists.
(c) Metaphysicians.
(d) Psychologists.

2. 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 spirit lives within the sun.
(d) His name was given to a star within the Little Dipper constellation.

3. What is the ability to imagine?
(a) A waste of the intelligent mind.
(b) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.
(c) A symptom of mental illness.
(d) A major power of human nature.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to Bachelard, sees everything as small from atop their towers of domination?

2. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?

3. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?

4. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?

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

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