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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 wrote of "La Redousse"?
(a) Bachelard.
(b) Bosco.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Baudelaire.

2. Victor Hugo's literary character, Quasimodo, described what as "egg, nest, house, country and universe"?
(a) Aachen Cathedral.
(b) Notre Dame Cathedral.
(c) The Taj Mahal.
(d) Canterbury Cathedral.

3. Who imagined a snail rolling over and over to form its shell internally?
(a) Palissy.
(b) Robinet.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Pare.

4. In the words of Bachelard, a mollusk that weighs fourteen pounds but with a shell that weighs five hundred or more pounds can be described in what way?
(a) An immense dream of nature.
(b) An impossibility.
(c) A metaphor.
(d) A miracle.

5. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?
(a) In childhood homes.
(b) In the imagination.
(c) In criminal cellars.
(d) In dark attics.

Short Answer Questions

1. As stated throughout "The Poetics of Space," what must one do in order to take a fresh approach to the process of imagination?

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

3. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?

4. What does Bachelard say makes miniatures of all things seen?

5. Bachelard theorizes that an observer must pass through what sort of threshold to experience an inversion of perspective?

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