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

2. What title was given to the poor people of France in the 19th century?

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

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

5. What was Nietzche famous for criticizing in his writings?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How is the Commune first described in the book?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the portrayal of work and retirement in the book. How were these two acts considered similar to one another in the European culture in the 1800s given the definition given of each term by the author?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the portrayal of Germany and France in the book. What information does the author offer us about both countries ideologies based on his comparisons of them in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the concept of fantasy presented in the book. What role did the creation of fantasy within areas like the arcades play in the way others viewed society in Europe? Why did vendors feel the need to create such fantasy?

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