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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 describe as a group of notes that are associated with the same topic?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Similie.
(c) Convolute.
(d) Trope.

2. What industry relied upon the success of the iron industry in the 19th century?
(a) Textiles.
(b) Construction companies.
(c) Automotives.
(d) The Railway.

3. What kind of existence does the author say the urban development brought to Paris in Chapter 8?
(a) Urgency.
(b) Possibility.
(c) Fantasy.
(d) Realism.

4. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) Exposes.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Street Fighting.
(d) Hausmannism.

5. What is the title of Chapter 2?
(a) Introductions.
(b) The Arcades.
(c) Street Fighting.
(d) Exposes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concept does the author credit as an attribute of the modern world along with ennui?

2. How does the author begin labeling the chapters in Chapter 10?

3. What year did the idea of public exhibition of goods occur in France?

4. What does the author say the arcade merchants showed a tendency toward because of technology?

5. What were the poor people of Paris forced to do as a consequence of urban planning in the 19th century?

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