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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. Complete the following sentence from the author discussing Romantic beliefs, "The primary interest of _______ is not linguistic but optical."

3. What occupation is the woman whose arcade is destroyed in a fire in Chapter 2?

4. What country did the author Nietzche hail from?

5. How many street cafes were in Paris in 1757?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are fonts first discussed in the book?

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

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

5. Describe the purpose for the author using multiple fonts in Chapter 7.

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the proletariat with the bourgeoisie in the book. What obstacles stood between these classes that set them apart from one another?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the portrayal of humanism in the book. What can we learn about the emergence of humanist beliefs based on the portrayal of Fourier's schema of the human passions?

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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