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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Beginning of Photography.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What area does the author say had improved so much that arcade clerks had to train in art and other areas?
(a) Education.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Textiles.
(d) Mining.

2. What were the poor people of Paris forced to do as a consequence of urban planning in the 19th century?
(a) Pay high taxes.
(b) Evacuate the city.
(c) Be imprisoned.
(d) Move to another country.

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

4. Who does the author say had a six-foot-high gold-plated key on their business sign at the arcade?
(a) A professor.
(b) The Mayor.
(c) The locksmith.
(d) A cook.

5. What word does Theodor Adorno use to describe a group of notes that share the same topics?
(a) Personification.
(b) Trope.
(c) Similie.
(d) Constellation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What century does Theodor Adorno work in?

3. What does the author say the arcade was a precursor to in modern society?

4. What kinds of writings were mentioned as being part of Romanticism?

5. How might the order of the first chapter be described?

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