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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 was street fighting done without in Paris?
(a) Weaponry.
(b) Shirts.
(c) Interference.
(d) Belts.

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

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

4. What type of technology was first used in the arcades of Paris according to Chapter 2?
(a) Gas lights.
(b) Candles.
(c) Lamps.
(d) Torches.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What phrase does the author discuss that is spelled backwards in Chapter 6?

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

4. In what decade does the author say business first increased at the arcades?

5. What philosopher is the primary focus of Chapter 6?

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 describe imagination at the end of Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

8. How does the author discuss the use of technology at the end of Chapter 5?

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

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

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