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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 does the author describe as a group of notes that are associated with the same topic?
(a) Convolute.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Trope.
(d) Similie.

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

3. What year did Au Bon Marche sell 450,000 Francs?
(a) 1840.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1765.
(d) 1902.

4. What does the author say places like Paris were celebrations of the power of?
(a) The modern world.
(b) Romance.
(c) Technology.
(d) The industrialized world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What occupation does Theodor Adorno hold?

2. What is the later date of the face page of the expose used in Chapter 2?

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".

4. What is the title of Chapter 3?

5. What city are the arcades the author focuses on located?

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