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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 was street fighting done without in Paris?
(a) Weaponry.
(b) Interference.
(c) Belts.
(d) Shirts.

2. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) Baudelaire.
(b) K, L, M, N, O, P.
(c) Urban Myth.
(d) Bohemians.

3. What does the author credit for giving a sense of time in the book in the form of a calendar?
(a) Discology.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Anthropolgy.

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

5. Who is credited with most of the photos used in the book?
(a) Benjamin.
(b) McLaughlin.
(c) Eiland.
(d) Nadar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author say had a six-foot-high gold-plated key on their business sign at the arcade?

2. Which of the following things is not considered part of the psychological order the arcades created?

3. What area does the author say had improved so much that arcade clerks had to train in art and other areas?

4. What does the author use to create a collage like feel in the text in Chapter 7?

5. What does the author say the arcade was a precursor to in modern society?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the face pages of Chapter 2.

7. How are fonts first discussed in the book?

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

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

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

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