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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: The Farragut.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Sorbonne?
(a) A church.
(b) A highly respected Paris university.
(c) A Paris hospital.
(d) An art museum.

2. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?
(a) To get exercise.
(b) To see all of Paris below it.
(c) To prove he could.
(d) To see the cathedral.

3. What was the quickest killer of those locked in Paris during the siege?
(a) Gun fire.
(b) Disease.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Battle wounds.

4. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?
(a) The Pentagon.
(b) Mount Vernon.
(c) The White House.
(d) The Capitol.

5. What type of people did John Collins Warren offer his son upon his journey to Paris?
(a) To embrace those with similar tastes.
(b) To avoid those fond of theaters and dissipation.
(c) To avoid those who did not attend church regularly.
(d) To embrace those of a serious mind like his own.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?

2. Where did Washburne get his legal degree?

3. What social pastime did Augustus Saint-Gaudens greatly enjoy?

4. How did James Jackson Jr. die?

5. What household pet was very popular among the French in 1830?

(see the answer key)

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