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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What movement is the commune built after?

3. How old was the young woman Baudelaire tells a story of her relationship with a 60 year old man?

4. What is the title of Chapter 5?

5. What class primarily of people resides in the commune?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is romanticism first described in the book?

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

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

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

7. How is the drug culture of Europe discussed in Chapter 6?

8. How does the author first describe a convolute in the book?

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

10. How are fonts first discussed in the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the portrayal of political institutions in the book. What reason does the author have for placing emphasis on the creation of political institutions like Communism, namely when suggesting they derived from other cultures? What message might he be saying about the nature of unity even in politics?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's portrayal of war and its impact on society in the book. What might the author be saying about the hindrances war has on writing, and thus the ability for society to evolve, given his account of Nietzsche and Hegel at the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the author's broad use of quotes and fonts in the book. How might the author be using these things to not only showcase a wide variety of ideas and theories but also the actual art form associated within each convolute in the book?

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