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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 most important concept the author puts forth in Chapter 3?
(a) Industrialization.
(b) Love.
(c) Religion.
(d) Modernity.

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

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

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

5. What country does the word Konyolute derive from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Russia.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What two centuries does the book span?

5. What does the author use to distinguish sections within his chapters?

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