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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, K,L,M,N,O,P.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What two centuries does the book span?
(a) 20th and 21st.
(b) 19th and 20th.
(c) 18th and 19th.
(d) 17th and 18th.

3. What was street fighting done without in Paris?
(a) Weaponry.
(b) Interference.
(c) Shirts.
(d) Belts.

4. What type of materials rose in popularity in the 19th century?
(a) Glass and iron.
(b) Steel and iron.
(c) Gold and steel.
(d) Glass and steel.

5. What objects served an important purpose to separate the public in the arcades from those outside?
(a) Glass walls.
(b) Barricades.
(c) Guards.
(d) Gates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the palace in London depicted in a lithograph in Chapter 5?

2. In what decade does the author say business first increased at the arcades?

3. What subjects did Baudelaire believe the future of literature would rely on?

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

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

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