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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten: Madness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Americans find unusual about the length of a day in Paris?
(a) The days were much shorter in the summer.
(b) The sun shone earlier in the day during summer.
(c) The days were much longer in the winter.
(d) The sun shone later in the day during the summer.

2. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson say was one of the chief draws of Paris to young men?
(a) The immense number of churches in the city.
(b) Social freedoms.
(c) The large number of single women.
(d) The availability of cheap education.

3. Why did Washburne move to Paris in 1870?
(a) He was the new American minister.
(b) To teach.
(c) He was exiled from America.
(d) For education.

4. Who descended on the Moulton Estate on May 9, 1871?
(a) Communards.
(b) Communists.
(c) German military.
(d) Police.

5. Who marched into Paris on March 1, 1871?
(a) English.
(b) Italians.
(c) Germans.
(d) Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?

2. What was the first news article to appear about the daguerreotype in the United States?

3. How large is Webster's Reply to Hayne by George Healy?

4. What huge political event was taking place when Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a cameo cutter apprentice?

5. Who was Benjamin Franklin?

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