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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word does Theodor Adorno use to describe a group of notes that share the same topics?
(a) Trope.
(b) Similie.
(c) Constellation.
(d) Personification.

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

4. What occupation is the woman whose arcade is destroyed in a fire in Chapter 2?
(a) A poisoner.
(b) A dress maker.
(c) A baker.
(d) A chef.

5. What year does the author discuss Baudelaire writing to a princess?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1754.

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

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

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

9. What is the name of the palace in London depicted in a lithograph in Chapter 5?
(a) The Golden Cathedral.
(b) The Silver Estate.
(c) Westminster Abbey.
(d) Crystal Palace.

10. What was Nietzche famous for criticizing in his writings?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Politics.
(c) Christianity.
(d) America.

11. Other than French, what other culture is represented in the poems shared in Chapter 2?
(a) East Asian.
(b) Italian.
(c) Turkish.
(d) British.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the poor people of Paris forced to do as a consequence of urban planning in the 19th century?

2. What does the author say that the use of fonts give to those discussed in various sections?

3. 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".

4. What is the name of the middle class that emerged in Paris in the 19th century?

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

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