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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 is the Louvre?
(a) An architecture school.
(b) A medical school.
(c) An art musuem.
(d) An art school.

2. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?
(a) It shows a rare portrait of James Fenimore Cooper.
(b) It shows a view of the Louvre many people will never see.
(c) It shows a great number of American visitors to Paris.
(d) It shows a great number of masterworks all together.

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

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

5. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?
(a) Less than a hundred years.
(b) More than three hundred years.
(c) Fifty years.
(d) Two hundred years.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?

2. Besides creating portraits, what other means of making money did Samuel Morse pursue before moving to Paris?

3. What did many Americans quickly discover about the economy in France as compared to America?

4. What was the draw of Galignani's for many visiting Americans in Paris?

5. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?

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