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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. Who is the only one of New England's immortals, famous writers and intellectuals, who never went to Paris?
(a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
(b) Henry Thoreau.
(c) Herman Melville.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

2. To where was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte exiled in the 1830s after a failed to overthrow King Louis-Phillipe?
(a) United States.
(b) England.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

3. Why did Victor Hugo move to Belgium in 1851?
(a) To have the freedom to speak his mind about the new French government.
(b) To escape prosecution.
(c) To aid his health.
(d) To join his family.

4. What fashion among male Parisians did John Sanderson criticize during his time in Paris?
(a) Blousy slacks.
(b) Beards and mustaches.
(c) High pompadour haircuts.
(d) Oversized shirts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?

2. Who attacked and beat Charles Sumner to such a degree that he would have pain for much of the rest of his life?

3. Who was P.T.Barnum?

4. What habit did Saint-Gaudens' teachers have that he carried on into his own work?

5. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes stress that the ability to dissect a human corpse was a unique and deeply important part of his French medical training?

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