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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. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphor of drawers to describe the human brain?
(a) A chest of drawers is finite, while the brain's capacity is infinite.
(b) He wonders how objects would be retrieved from the drawers.
(c) Items get lost in drawers.
(d) He wonders how reason determines which drawer should contain each new object.

2. How do psychoanalysts refer to the duality of self?
(a) Contained and universal.
(b) Introvert and extrovert.
(c) Open and closed.
(d) Poet and scientist.

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

4. Who claimed that only the image can keep up with the changes of nature?
(a) Bachelard.
(b) Vlaminck.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Pasternak.

5. What does a metaphor present?
(a) A tangible object as an intangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.
(b) A tangible object described in full detail.
(c) An intangible object described in full detail.
(d) An intangible object as a tangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a dream house for Bachelard?

2. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

3. For Bachelard, what is amusing about space images?

4. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?

5. What enables a person to hear differently in the opinion of the author?

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