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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. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?
(a) The soul cannot be at peace unless residing in the childhood home.
(b) Dates of events are more important than the sense of where they occur.
(c) Dates of events are less important than the sense of where they occur.
(d) When a house is torn down, the memories fade.

2. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Externalities, that which we hear.
(b) Internalities, that which we hear.
(c) Externalities, that which we say.
(d) Internalities, that which we say.

3. What is forgotten by Milosz's cynical character?
(a) Recent happy times.
(b) Childhood memories.
(c) Everything.
(d) Nothing.

4. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?
(a) A barrier against evil.
(b) The security of surrounding our inner self at death and burial.
(c) A chrysalis for new life.
(d) A finality to mourning.

5. How is Tom Thumb's influence transposed into the sky?
(a) His name was given to the small star that drives the Grand Chariot or Great Bear constellation.
(b) His name was given to a star within the Little Dipper constellation.
(c) His spirit lives within the sun.
(d) His name was given to a moon of Saturn.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Rilke's round sky poem, what concept echoes Michelet?

2. Victor Hugo's literary character, Quasimodo, described what as "egg, nest, house, country and universe"?

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

4. How is Tom Thumb killed?

5. What does every corner or angle in a house symbolize for Bachelard?

(see the answer key)

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