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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Beginning of Photography.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author use to distinguish sections within his chapters?
(a) Different text sizes.
(b) Different colors.
(c) Different fonts.
(d) Different pages.

2. What concept does the author credit as an attribute of the modern world along with ennui?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Lying.
(c) Rudeness.
(d) Sarcasm.

3. What year did the arcades first turn a $21 million Francs profit?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1780.
(d) 1869.

4. What is the title of Chapter 4 of the book?
(a) Baudelaire.
(b) First Sketches.
(c) Urban Myth.
(d) The Beginning of Photography.

5. What does the author say supplanted the old soldier-laborer that the agrarian society depended on?
(a) Textiles.
(b) Manufacturing.
(c) Urbanism.
(d) Modernism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 3?

2. What kinds of writings were mentioned as being part of Romanticism?

3. What is the first artistic movement the author discusses in the book?

4. What two centuries does the book span?

5. What does the author say women in Paris would do to be attractive despite it being uncomfortable?

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