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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight: Bound to Succeed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What took place on September 2, 1851?
(a) A protest march.
(b) A natural disaster.
(c) An execution.
(d) A coup.

2. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?
(a) General Lafayette.
(b) King Louis-Phillipe.
(c) Victor Hugo.
(d) Samuel Morse.

3. What problem did American doctors, and/or their patients, have in regards to female patients that was not shared by their Paris equivalent in 1830?
(a) Lack of freedom to examine female patients.
(b) A lack of respect for the particular ailments of women.
(c) Lack of concern for the conditions centering on pregnancy.
(d) A lack of understanding about female anatomy.

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

5. What habit did Saint-Gaudens' teachers have that he carried on into his own work?
(a) Reciting poetry while working.
(b) Working in complete silence.
(c) Singing as they worked.
(d) Working without companionship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Charles Stratton's stage name?

2. What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

3. What was Innocents Abroad?

4. What fashion among male Parisians did John Sanderson criticize during his time in Paris?

5. To where was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte exiled in the 1830s after a failed to overthrow King Louis-Phillipe?

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