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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Fourteen: Au Revoir, Paris!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first American to be admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts?
(a) William Morris Hunt.
(b) George Healy.
(c) Charles Sumner.
(d) Richard Morris Hunt.

2. What did the American minister to Paris do in the wake of King Louis-Phillipe's abdication?
(a) Recognized the new government.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Waited for orders from the President.
(d) Ordered all Americans to leave the country.

3. Who founded Cooperstown in New York?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper's father.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper's grandfather.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper's son.

4. At what university did Samuel Morse teach art after leaving Paris?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) New York University.

5. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?
(a) George Healy.
(b) Charles Sumner.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) John Fenimore Cooper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of people did John Collins Warren offer his son upon his journey to Paris?

2. What profession was Elizabeth Blackwell a member of?

3. Who was the American minister to Paris in 1787?

4. Who was among the artists that John Singer Sargent admired?

5. What took place in April 1834 that allowed many medical students to see gunshot wounds and wounds caused by bayonets first hand?

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