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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. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?
(a) Cellar fears indicate childhood trauma.
(b) Cellar fears take longer to fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(c) Cellar fears precede mental illness.
(d) Cellar fears may be reasoned away.

2. For psychoanalysts, what do conflicted locks and keys in dreams symbolize?
(a) Repression.
(b) Temptations.
(c) Sexual intimacy.
(d) New discoveries.

3. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?
(a) Attic fears may be reasoned away.
(b) Attic fears indicate spiritual unrest.
(c) Attic fears indicate childhood trauma.
(d) Attic fears take longer fade, and remain tentative and unknown.

4. Bachelard theorizes that an observer must pass through what sort of threshold to experience an inversion of perspective?
(a) A threshold of absurdity.
(b) A threshold of a doorway.
(c) A threshold from metaphysics to psychology.
(d) A threshold from present to past.

5. For the Ancients, the shell is a symbol of what?
(a) The origin of man.
(b) The hut.
(c) The creation of earth.
(d) The human body that encases the soul like an envelope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?

2. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?

3. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?

4. Which four artist-thinkers does Bachelard cite early in "The Phenomenology of Roundness"?

5. In folklore and poetry, as described by Bachelard, how is image size transposed?

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