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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) Conclusions.
(b) Urban Myth.
(c) Bohemians.
(d) Street Fighting.

2. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) Bohemians.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) K, L, M, N, O, P.
(d) Urban Myth.

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

4. What decade does the author cover in Chapter 6?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1800s.
(d) 1830s.

5. Complete the following sentence from the author discussing William Blake, "Imagination is not ______ . . . Imagination is an almost divine faculty which perceives . . ."
(a) Real.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) Fake.
(d) Imagined.

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

7. What industry does the author say allowed for the emergence of arcades because they were booming?
(a) Textile.
(b) Produce.
(c) Iron.
(d) Glass.

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

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

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

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

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

13. How old was the young woman Baudelaire tells a story of her relationship with a 60 year old man?
(a) 26.
(b) 18.
(c) 30.
(d) 22.

14. Which of the following things is not considered part of the psychological order the arcades created?
(a) The 19th century.
(b) European perspective.
(c) Urbanism.
(d) Modernity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How were most weddings before the 19th century in Paris described?

2. What year did Au Bon Marche sell 450,000 Francs?

3. What occupation is the woman whose arcade is destroyed in a fire in Chapter 2?

4. What is the most important concept the author puts forth in Chapter 3?

5. What were used both in the railroad and the arcades during their constructions?

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