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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two: Voila Paris!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What household pet was very popular among the French in 1830?
(a) Fish.
(b) Hamsters.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Cats.

2. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?
(a) A judge.
(b) An artist.
(c) A historian.
(d) A writer.

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

4. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes choose to travel to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To vacation.
(b) To learn from Parisian artists.
(c) To further his education.
(d) To join friends.

5. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?
(a) Two hundred years.
(b) More than three hundred years.
(c) Less than a hundred years.
(d) Fifty years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?

2. What is the Sorbonne?

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

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

5. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?

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