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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 does the author use to create a collage like feel in the text in Chapter 7?
(a) Thoughts from his head.
(b) Quotes.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Drawings.

2. What type of materials rose in popularity in the 19th century?
(a) Glass and steel.
(b) Gold and steel.
(c) Steel and iron.
(d) Glass and iron.

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

4. 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".
(a) Romance.
(b) Mystery.
(c) Detective.
(d) History.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What area does the author say had improved so much that arcade clerks had to train in art and other areas?

3. What is the art form that is a printed image on wood or metal?

4. Which of the following men are not discussed in Chapter 7, Section S?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author credit for the initial emergence of arcades in late 1830s France?

2. How are fonts first discussed in the book?

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

4. How is the first lighting installed in the arcades described in the book?

5. How is Theodor Adorno first described in the book?

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

7. How does the author describe imagination at the end of Chapter 6?

8. How is the struggle between the economic and social class described in Chapter 5?

9. How does the author first describe surrealism in the book?

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

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