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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. For Bachelard, what is the dichotomy of doors?
(a) Doors ajar offer no protection, no matter how solidly built.
(b) Doors can be opened into the world of men or into the world of solitude.
(c) Open doors function as windows.
(d) Doors invite inside, but also shut out.

2. What does Bachelard believe is an antidote for claustrophobia?
(a) Dynamic houses that open back out to the universe.
(b) Spending time away from one's house.
(c) Stairways.
(d) Light colors.

3. According to Baltrusaitis, what can leap from a shell when reality is dismissed?
(a) A cat.
(b) Man.
(c) A snail.
(d) A dog.

4. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?
(a) Poet.
(b) Architect.
(c) Scientist.
(d) Psychoanalyst.

5. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?
(a) A humble house with no apparent resistance on a hillside above the city.
(b) A massive house, well fortified and set alone on an island.
(c) A humble house with no apparent resistance set alone on an island.
(d) A massive house, well fortified and on a hillside above the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Bachelard, the well-being of a nest diminishes what?

2. In many countries, insists the author, tiny-ness is the center of what?

3. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?

4. 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?

5. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?

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