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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 does the author say the improvement of the education system took students beyond?

2. What is the title of Chapter 13 of the book?

3. What does the brief schematics included in Chapter 14 say about the development of the book's layout?

4. What is the title of Chapter 9 of the book?

5. What does the author note for being something street fighting can help prevent?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the two works of the human spirit in the book?

2. How is cumulative eyestrain described?

3. How does the author describe the motivations for women and children to go to work from 1820-1895?

4. Discuss the story of a man named Gavroche in the book.

5. How does the author describe the two distinctive ideas within Germany and France in regard to social order?

6. Describe the author's appearance in the first photos shown of him in the book?

7. What does the author say is American's blind spot in the book?

8. How does the author describe the upper class's inability to relate to the lower class?

9. Describe the four groups involved in Fourier's schema.

10. How might the purpose of Chapter 14 be described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the portrayal of violence in the book. How does the author portray violence as necessary and useful through his accounts of street fighting and rioting in the book?

Essay Topic 2

The arcades play a role throughout much of the book, but their presence should be taken for more than face value. Part 1.) Why does the author try and mimic his writing to the nature of the arcades with sparse bits of information given to create a whole? Part 2.) What might the author wish for the arcades to symbolize in regards to society in the 19th century? Part 3.) Does the author wish for the arcades to serve as a vehicle to tell the story of European society's evolution over time?

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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