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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Barricade Fighting & Daumier.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say places like Paris were celebrations of the power of?
(a) The industrialized world.
(b) Technology.
(c) Romance.
(d) The modern world.

2. What struggle is examined most in Chapter 5?
(a) Those in the economic and social classes.
(b) The upper class.
(c) The Enlish.
(d) The bourgeoisie.

3. What did the arcades allow merchants to do because the areas were sufficiently enclosed?
(a) Live.
(b) Keep money.
(c) Hold bulk stock.
(d) Gather.

4. What was Fourier's main theoretical contribution that humans were?
(a) Romantics.
(b) Engines.
(c) Robots.
(d) Passionate machines.

5. What political theory does the author focus on in Chapter 7?
(a) Fascism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Democracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say women in Paris would do to be attractive despite it being uncomfortable?

2. What does the author say supplanted the old soldier-laborer that the agrarian society depended on?

3. What does the author credit as offering some hope to society in Chapter 9?

4. What does the author say was an unfortunate cultural reaction associated with shortage of economic policy?

5. What is the name of the man who is the key character in a story by Daumier shown in Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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