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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the middle class that emerged in Paris in the 19th century?
(a) Nobles.
(b) Bohemian.
(c) Proletariat.
(d) Bourgeoisie.

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

3. What is the first artistic movement the author discusses in the book?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Naturalism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Impressionism.

4. Who is the author of the book?
(a) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(b) Alexander Dumas.
(c) Howard Eiland.
(d) Walter Benjamin.

5. What were the poor people of Paris forced to do as a consequence of urban planning in the 19th century?
(a) Pay high taxes.
(b) Be imprisoned.
(c) Evacuate the city.
(d) Move to another country.

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

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

8. What does the author include a photo of at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) The Parisian sewer.
(b) A woman at a cafe.
(c) An omnibus.
(d) Himself.

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

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

11. What century does Theodor Adorno work in?
(a) 20th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 21st.

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

13. What is the name of the letter G section of Chapter 5?
(a) Exposes.
(b) First Sketches.
(c) Introductions.
(d) Exhibitions, Advertising, Grandville.

14. What did the arcade merchants unite to provide for the first time according to Chapter 5?
(a) Books.
(b) Street entertainment.
(c) Housing.
(d) Street cafes.

15. What philosopher is the primary focus of Chapter 6?
(a) Conclusions.
(b) Streetfighting in Munich.
(c) Baudelaire.
(d) Hausmannism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many street cafes were in Paris in 1757?

2. What was Nietzche famous for criticizing in his writings?

3. What word does Theodor Adorno use to describe a group of notes that share the same topics?

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

5. Complete the following sentence from the author discussing William Blake, "Imagination is not ______ . . . Imagination is an almost divine faculty which perceives . . ."

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