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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 is the title of Chapter 4 of the book?
(a) Urban Myth.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) First Sketches.
(d) The Beginning of Photography.

2. What does the author say the arcade was a precursor to in modern society?
(a) The department store.
(b) A shopping mall.
(c) A street market.
(d) A bookstore.

3. What does the author use to distinguish sections within his chapters?
(a) Different fonts.
(b) Different text sizes.
(c) Different colors.
(d) Different pages.

4. 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) Mystery.
(d) Detective.

5. 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 locksmith.
(c) The Mayor.
(d) A cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occupation does Theodor Adorno hold?

2. Whose urban planning devastated the poor people of Paris in the 19th century?

3. What is the title of Chapter 3?

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

5. What country does the word Konyolute derive from?

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