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

2. What are the men in suits sitting on in the rain in the lithography featured in Chapter 7?
(a) A building.
(b) An omnibus.
(c) A car.
(d) A train.

3. What is the title of Chapter 2?
(a) Introductions.
(b) Street Fighting.
(c) The Arcades.
(d) Exposes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Theodor Adorno use to describe a group of notes that share the same topics?

2. Where is the commune discussed in the book primarily located?

3. What was street fighting done without in Paris?

4. What does the author use to create a collage like feel in the text in Chapter 7?

5. What is the title of Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the author discuss iron girders in Chapter 5?

4. How are the sales of the arcade shops described during the mid 1800s?

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

6. How is the concept of COFFEE ROOM discussed in the book?

7. How does the author first describe the lithograph in the book?

8. How does the author explain his writing method for the book in regards to the Parisian arcades?

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

10. How are fonts first discussed in the book?

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