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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 experience did Washburne have before being sent to Paris?
(a) Congress committees dealing with French affairs.
(b) Ministry in Italy.
(c) None.
(d) Congress committees dealing with foreign affairs.

2. What were omnibuses?
(a) Double rider bikes.
(b) Double-decker boats that traveled the Seine.
(c) Giant, horse-drawn public conveyances.
(d) Large wheelchairs.

3. What religion did Gussie Saint-Gaudens' parents assume her new husband was based on the nationality of his parents?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Mormon.
(d) Baptist.

4. Did the political catastrophes of 1870-71 stop the influx of Americans to Paris?
(a) Yes.
(b) Only for a year.
(c) No.
(d) Only for a few months.

5. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?
(a) John Sanderson.
(b) David Farragut.
(c) Samuel Morse.
(d) Melancthon T. Woolsey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession did Ralph Waldo Emerson leave prior to going to Paris in 1833?

2. Why did Washburne move to Paris in 1870?

3. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?

4. Who is Natty Bumppo?

5. Who was the first American to be admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts?

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