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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class primarily of people resides in the commune?
(a) Both middle and lower class.
(b) Middle class.
(c) Upper class.
(d) Lower class.

2. What year did the arcades first turn a $21 million Francs profit?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1905.

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

4. What does the author use to distinguish sections within his chapters?
(a) Different text sizes.
(b) Different fonts.
(c) Different pages.
(d) Different colors.

5. How might the order of the first chapter be described?
(a) Numerical.
(b) Organized.
(c) Unorganized.
(d) Alphabetical.

6. What occupation does the men discussed in Chapter 7, Section S share?
(a) Architects.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Shop owners.
(d) Engineers.

7. What is the earlier date of the face page of the expose used in Chapter 2?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1820.

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

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

10. Who is credited with most of the photos used in the book?
(a) Nadar.
(b) Eiland.
(c) Benjamin.
(d) McLaughlin.

11. What country does the word Konyolute derive from?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) Italy.

12. What does the author say the arcade merchants showed a tendency toward because of technology?
(a) Urbanism.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) Realism.
(d) Fanciness.

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

14. Whose urban planning devastated the poor people of Paris in the 19th century?
(a) Pompidou.
(b) Hausmann.
(c) Nadar.
(d) Eiland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author say had a six-foot-high gold-plated key on their business sign at the arcade?

2. Which of the following activities is not classified as "full bodied" by the author?

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

4. What industry does the author say allowed for the emergence of arcades because they were booming?

5. What does the author say the arcade was a precursor to in modern society?

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