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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. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?
(a) In the winter.
(b) In the countryside.
(c) In cities.
(d) In the summer.

2. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?
(a) When it is vacant.
(b) When a new family moves in.
(c) When it is immortalized by a poet.
(d) When it is assailed by elements of nature.

3. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?
(a) Animal life.
(b) The storm cloud.
(c) Human existence.
(d) The hurricane.

4. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?
(a) The real estate market.
(b) The field of psychoanalysis.
(c) The intricacies of architecture.
(d) The poetic imagination.

5. What is able to invent forms emerging from shells that are beyond scientific research according to Bachelard's theories based on the work of Baltrusaitis?
(a) The imagination.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) The mollusk.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?

2. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?

3. Who often ignores the miniature worlds and objects in fairy tales in the author's opinion?

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

5. The cynical character created by the poet Milosz reminisces where?

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