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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 title of Chapter 11 of the book?

2. What is the title of Chapter 8 of the book?

3. Which of the following areas is not mentioned as being necessary for a dynamic European life?

4. Where are the photos of the author shot in that are shown in the book?

5. What class are the younger bohemes a part of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Alexander Dumas first described in the book?

3. What role does education play in the emergence of bohemians?

4. How does the author describe the workaholic actions of the poor in Chapter 12?

5. What is the nature of the contents of Early Draft in Chapter 14?

6. How is residential rioting discussed in Chapter 10?

7. How does the author discuss religion in Chapter 12?

8. How does the author express Baudelaire's vision of urban life in the book?

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

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

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

Compare and contrast the portrayal of lithographs and photography in the book. What reason did the author have for sometimes pitting these two mediums against one another, and what information can we learn about the modern movement based on their presence in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the concept of the imagination that is presented in the book. What can we learn about the possibilities of the imagination based on the portrayal of the Romantics point of view in the book?

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