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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five: American Sensations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 showed children in unusual situations.
(d) Many were nudes.

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

3. Who is Natty Bumppo?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes' cousin.
(b) A character in several James Fenimore Cooper's novels.
(c) Samuel Morse's daughter.
(d) George Healy's uncle.

4. How did James Jackson Jr. die?
(a) Typhoid fever.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Cholera.

5. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?
(a) That of a perfectionist.
(b) That of a painter.
(c) That of a child.
(d) That of a blind man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?

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

4. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?

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

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