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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four: The Medicals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Benjamin Franklin?
(a) An American artist in Paris.
(b) A French immigrant.
(c) A French teacher.
(d) An American diplomat, politician, writer, and inventor.

2. What is the Louvre?
(a) An art school.
(b) A medical school.
(c) An art musuem.
(d) An architecture school.

3. What was Emma Willard's profession?
(a) Artist.
(b) Doctor in training.
(c) Schoolmistress and textbook writer.
(d) Lawyer.

4. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) John Quincy Adams.

5. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?
(a) Many showed acts considered vulgar to Americans.
(b) Many displayed horrific battle scenes.
(c) Many were nudes.
(d) Many showed children in unusual situations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fashion among male Parisians did John Sanderson criticize during his time in Paris?

2. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?

3. How did theater help Americans learn French?

4. What was thought to be a cause for the spread of diseases such as cholera?

5. To whom does the author of this book compare James Fenimore Cooper's popularity in Paris?

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