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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Baudelaire.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What phrase does the author discuss that is spelled backwards in Chapter 6?
(a) CAFE.
(b) COFFEE ROOM.
(c) CHANGING STATION.
(d) WASHING ROOM.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the book?

2. Other than French, what other culture is represented in the poems shared in Chapter 2?

3. What two centuries does the book span?

4. What is the most important concept the author puts forth in Chapter 3?

5. What was Nietzche famous for criticizing in his writings?

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