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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, Addenda.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author credit for giving a sense of time in the book in the form of a calendar?
(a) Anthropolgy.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Discology.
(d) Sociology.

2. What concept does the author credit as an attribute of the modern world along with ennui?
(a) Rudeness.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Lying.
(d) Sarcasm.

3. What is the title of Chapter 13 of the book?
(a) Street Fighting.
(b) Final Sketches.
(c) Baudelaire.
(d) Further Conclusions.

4. What year did Au Bon Marche sell 450,000 Francs?
(a) 1840.
(b) 1765.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1852.

5. What does the author say that the use of fonts give to those discussed in various sections?
(a) Self awareness.
(b) A voice.
(c) A sense of accomplishment.
(d) Solidarity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many novels does the author note Alexander Dumas for writing?

2. What title was given to the poor people of France in the 19th century?

3. What did Victor Hugo often use as an archetype as a hero?

4. What does the author say Baudelaire did not have as a child?

5. 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".

(see the answer key)

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