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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 is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) A book of short stories.
(b) A nonfiction book about slavery.
(c) A fictional novel about slavery.
(d) A book of poetry.

2. What is Morse Code?
(a) A language that allows artists to hide messages in paintings.
(b) A code the Americans used during the Revolutionary War.
(c) A means of communication for deaf people.
(d) Electrical signals that translate into dots and dashes.

3. What was considered the most important aspect of a cameo's success?
(a) Size.
(b) Design.
(c) Color.
(d) Texture.

4. 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) The large number of single women.
(c) The availability of cheap education.
(d) Social freedoms.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Augustus Saint-Gaudens when his father apprenticed him to a cameo cutter?

2. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?

3. What was Emma Willard's profession?

4. Where was the first children's hospital opened?

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

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