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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) Street Fighting.
(b) Hausmannism.
(c) Exposes.
(d) Baudelaire.

4. Where is the commune discussed in the book primarily located?
(a) Outside Paris.
(b) Inside Paris.
(c) In Britain.
(d) In Germany.

5. What city are the arcades the author focuses on located?
(a) Munich.
(b) London.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the princes whom Baudelaire writes to?

2. What does the author say supplanted the old soldier-laborer that the agrarian society depended on?

3. What does the author say the arcade merchants showed a tendency toward because of technology?

4. What is the first artistic movement the author discusses in the book?

5. What is the name of the palace in London depicted in a lithograph in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are fonts first discussed in the book?

2. How does the author describe the fate of a woman poisoner in Chapter 2?

3. Describe the story told by Baudelaire of a 26-year-old woman's relationship with a 60-year-old man?

4. Describe the purpose for the author using multiple fonts in Chapter 7.

5. How does the author describe the importance of manufacturing in Chapter 3?

6. How is Nietzsche's writing style described in Chapter 4?

7. How were barricades used at the arcades in Paris?

8. How is the modern age first described in the book?

9. Describe the face pages of Chapter 2.

10. How were gas lamps first used at the arcades of Paris?

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