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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What industry does the author say allowed for the emergence of arcades because they were booming?

2. What is the most important concept the author puts forth in Chapter 3?

3. Complete the following sentence from the author discussing Romantic beliefs, "The primary interest of _______ is not linguistic but optical."

4. What is the name of the palace in London depicted in a lithograph in Chapter 5?

5. Which of the following activities is not classified as "full bodied" by the author?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author discuss iron girders in Chapter 5?

2. Describe the face pages of Chapter 2.

3. How does the author describe imagination at the end of Chapter 6?

4. How is Theodor Adorno first described in the book?

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

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

7. How are fonts first discussed in the book?

8. How is Nietzsche's writing style described in Chapter 4?

9. How is the image of the omnibus described in Chapter 7?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the portrayal of Germany and France in the book. What information does the author offer us about both countries ideologies based on his comparisons of them in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the portrayal of the French writer and thinker Baudelaire in the book. What ideologies does the author present of his in the book and what impact does he credit him with in relation to European culture?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the portrayal of humanism in the book. What can we learn about the emergence of humanist beliefs based on the portrayal of Fourier's schema of the human passions?

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