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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say Baudelaire did not have as a child?
(a) Children's books.
(b) Toys.
(c) Parents.
(d) Shoes.

2. What drug does the author discuss most throughout the book?
(a) Hashish.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Mushrooms.

3. What are the men in suits sitting on in the rain in the lithography featured in Chapter 7?
(a) A train.
(b) An omnibus.
(c) A car.
(d) A building.

4. What occupation does Theodor Adorno hold?
(a) Miner.
(b) Engineer.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Chef.

5. How many street cafes were in Paris in 1757?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

6. What movement is the commune built after?
(a) The Modern Age.
(b) The Black Plague.
(c) The Revolution.
(d) The Technological Age.

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

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

9. What is the later date of the face page of the expose used in Chapter 2?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1950.

10. What is the name of the princes whom Baudelaire writes to?
(a) Eugenie.
(b) Caroline.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Jane.

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

12. What were used both in the railroad and the arcades during their constructions?
(a) Coal.
(b) Silver beams.
(c) Steel frames.
(d) Iron girders.

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

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

15. What literary and cultural style popular in the 19th century is discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) Utopism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Romanticism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the commune discussed in the book primarily located?

3. What objects served an important purpose to separate the public in the arcades from those outside?

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

5. What area does the author say had improved so much that arcade clerks had to train in art and other areas?

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