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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Hausmannism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 2?
(a) Introductions.
(b) Exposes.
(c) The Arcades.
(d) Street Fighting.

2. 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) Detective.
(b) Romance.
(c) History.
(d) Mystery.

3. Other than French, what other culture is represented in the poems shared in Chapter 2?
(a) Italian.
(b) British.
(c) East Asian.
(d) Turkish.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the arcades first turn a $21 million Francs profit?

2. What occupation is the woman whose arcade is destroyed in a fire in Chapter 2?

3. In what decade does the author say business first increased at the arcades?

4. What century does Theodor Adorno work in?

5. What word does Theodor Adorno use to describe a group of notes that share the same topics?

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