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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 does the author include a photo of at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) The Parisian sewer.
(b) Himself.
(c) A woman at a cafe.
(d) An omnibus.

2. Where is the commune discussed in the book primarily located?
(a) Inside Paris.
(b) Outside Paris.
(c) In Germany.
(d) In Britain.

3. What does the author say that the use of fonts give to those discussed in various sections?
(a) A voice.
(b) Solidarity.
(c) Self awareness.
(d) A sense of accomplishment.

4. What are the men in suits sitting on in the rain in the lithography featured in Chapter 7?
(a) A train.
(b) A car.
(c) An omnibus.
(d) A building.

5. What drug does the author discuss most throughout the book?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Hashish.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Cocaine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What objects served an important purpose to separate the public in the arcades from those outside?

2. What subjects did Baudelaire believe the future of literature would rely on?

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

4. What is the title of Chapter 7?

5. What does the author say Baudelaire did not have as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Theodor Adorno first described in the book?

2. How is romanticism first described in the book?

3. How does Hausmann's urban planning affect the poor people of Paris?

4. How does the author discuss iron girders in Chapter 5?

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

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

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

8. How does the author first describe surrealism in the book?

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

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

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