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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following activities is not classified as "full bodied" by the author?
(a) Painting pictures.
(b) Building cars.
(c) Making shops.
(d) Weaving fabrics.

2. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) Bohemians.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) K, L, M, N, O, P.
(d) Urban Myth.

3. What movement is the commune built after?
(a) The Technological Age.
(b) The Modern Age.
(c) The Revolution.
(d) The Black Plague.

4. What occupation does the men discussed in Chapter 7, Section S share?
(a) Philosophers.
(b) Engineers.
(c) Shop owners.
(d) Architects.

5. What decade did the arcades first emerge in France?
(a) 1780s.
(b) 1890s.
(c) 1900s.
(d) 1830s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author say had a six-foot-high gold-plated key on their business sign at the arcade?

2. What year did Au Bon Marche sell 450,000 Francs?

3. What are the men in suits sitting on in the rain in the lithography featured in Chapter 7?

4. What drug does the author discuss most throughout the book?

5. What phrase does the author discuss that is spelled backwards in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author discuss the use of technology at the end of Chapter 5?

2. How does the author describe the fate of a woman poisoner in Chapter 2?

3. How are fonts first discussed in the book?

4. How does Hausmann's urban planning affect the poor people of Paris?

5. How is the struggle between the economic and social class described in Chapter 5?

6. How does the author explain his writing method for the book in regards to the Parisian arcades?

7. How is the drug culture of Europe discussed in Chapter 6?

8. How is romanticism first described in the book?

9. How is the concept of COFFEE ROOM discussed in the book?

10. How were barricades used at the arcades in Paris?

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