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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What title was given to the poor people of France in the 19th century?
(a) Mercant.
(b) Noble.
(c) Proletariat.
(d) Bourgeouisie.

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

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

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

5. What year did the idea of public exhibition of goods occur in France?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1760.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1907.

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

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

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

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

10. What phrase does the author discuss that is spelled backwards in Chapter 6?
(a) CHANGING STATION.
(b) WASHING ROOM.
(c) CAFE.
(d) COFFEE ROOM.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What movement is the commune built after?

2. What kinds of writings were mentioned as being part of Romanticism?

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

4. What concept does the author credit as an attribute of the modern world along with ennui?

5. 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".

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