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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 is a brig as described in Chapter 1?
(a) A millitary jail.
(b) A cruise ship.
(c) A two-masted square-rigged ship that carried cargo.
(d) A single-masted round rigged ship that carried passengers.

2. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?
(a) To see all of Paris below it.
(b) To see the cathedral.
(c) To prove he could.
(d) To get exercise.

3. Who was the queen of Boston society when George Healy was still a budding artist?
(a) Mary Cassatt.
(b) Sally Foster Otis.
(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(d) Lucretia Morse.

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

5. What was James Fenimore Cooper's most well known novel prior to his travels to Paris?
(a) The Last of the Mohicans.
(b) The Deerslayer.
(c) Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers.
(d) The Ways of the Hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Sorbonne?

2. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?

3. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?

4. What did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?

5. What were omnibuses?

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