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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What industry does the author say allowed for the emergence of arcades because they were booming?
(a) Textile.
(b) Glass.
(c) Produce.
(d) Iron.

2. Which of the following activities is not classified as "full bodied" by the author?
(a) Building cars.
(b) Making shops.
(c) Painting pictures.
(d) Weaving fabrics.

3. What does the author say the arcade merchants showed a tendency toward because of technology?
(a) Fantasy.
(b) Realism.
(c) Urbanism.
(d) Fanciness.

4. What city are the arcades the author focuses on located?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Munich.

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

6. What year did the idea of public exhibition of goods occur in France?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1760.
(d) 1798.

7. What two centuries does the book span?
(a) 18th and 19th.
(b) 17th and 18th.
(c) 20th and 21st.
(d) 19th and 20th.

8. What type of materials rose in popularity in the 19th century?
(a) Glass and iron.
(b) Steel and iron.
(c) Gold and steel.
(d) Glass and steel.

9. Who does the author say had a six-foot-high gold-plated key on their business sign at the arcade?
(a) A cook.
(b) The locksmith.
(c) The Mayor.
(d) A professor.

10. What decade does the author cover in Chapter 6?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1800s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1830s.

11. What is the art form that is a printed image on wood or metal?
(a) Photography.
(b) Lithograph.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Architecture.

12. What century does Theodor Adorno work in?
(a) 21st.
(b) 18th.
(c) 20th.
(d) 19th.

13. Whose urban planning devastated the poor people of Paris in the 19th century?
(a) Eiland.
(b) Pompidou.
(c) Hausmann.
(d) Nadar.

14. Which of the following men are not discussed in Chapter 7, Section S?
(a) Adorno.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Kierkegaard.
(d) Wiesendgrund.

15. What did the arcade merchants unite to provide for the first time according to Chapter 5?
(a) Housing.
(b) Books.
(c) Street cafes.
(d) Street entertainment.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the princes whom Baudelaire writes to?

4. What concept does the author credit as an attribute of the modern world along with ennui?

5. What drug does the author discuss most throughout the book?

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