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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. Who commonly wore cameos during the time in which Saint-Gaudens was an apprentice in the art of cutting cameos?
(a) Artists.
(b) Actors.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

2. Who was Louis Napoleon?
(a) The new president of the Republic.
(b) Cousin of King Louis-Phillipe.
(c) The new American minister.
(d) The new king of France.

3. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?
(a) A college degree.
(b) A PhD.
(c) A recommendation from a practicing doctor.
(d) A high school degree.

4. What huge political event was taking place when Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a cameo cutter apprentice?
(a) The Spanish-American War.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The American Civil War.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Charles Stratton unique?

2. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?

3. What were the June Days of 1848?

4. Who was Louis Saint-Gaudens?

5. What was James Fenimore Cooper's most well known novel prior to his travels to Paris?

(see the answer key)

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