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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Further Conclusions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author credit as a commonplace phenomenon in Chapter 10?
(a) Becoming a farmer.
(b) Starting a small business.
(c) Living on the streets.
(d) Relocating for work.

2. What is the first artistic movement the author discusses in the book?
(a) Impressionism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Naturalism.

3. Complete this sentence from the opening of Section IV of Chapter 2, "The criminals in early _______ novels are neither gentlemen nor apaches, but private citizens of the middle class".
(a) History.
(b) Romance.
(c) Detective.
(d) Mystery.

4. How might the order of the first chapter be described?
(a) Organized.
(b) Alphabetical.
(c) Numerical.
(d) Unorganized.

5. What term is described as stopping work and trying different things?
(a) Relocating.
(b) Work.
(c) Reexamining.
(d) Retirement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trait did Fourier give to those he deemed butterflies in his schema?

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

3. What does the author say supplanted the old soldier-laborer that the agrarian society depended on?

4. Which of the following areas is not mentioned as being necessary for a dynamic European life?

5. What country does the word Konyolute derive from?

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