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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four: The Medicals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What household pet was very popular among the French in 1830?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Cats.
(c) Fish.
(d) Hamsters.

2. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson say was one of the chief draws of Paris to young men?
(a) The availability of cheap education.
(b) Social freedoms.
(c) The large number of single women.
(d) The immense number of churches in the city.

3. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(b) John Quincy Adams.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

4. What was the largest building in America in the 1830s?
(a) The Capitol in Washington.
(b) The Empire State Building.
(c) The Sears Tower.
(d) The White House.

5. For what reason did Mason Warren return to Paris three times in his life after his initial student days?
(a) To further his studies.
(b) To show it to his children.
(c) Poor health.
(d) To visit old friends.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?

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

4. To whom does the author of this book compare James Fenimore Cooper's popularity in Paris?

5. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?

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