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

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

3. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?
(a) A cruise ship.
(b) A two-masted square-rigged ship that carried cargo.
(c) A millitary jail.
(d) A single-masted round rigged ship that carried passengers.

4. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?
(a) The Palace Royale.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) École des Beaux-Arts.
(d) The Sorbonne.

5. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?
(a) That it was filled with complex people.
(b) That it was a world rich in history.
(c) That it was both filthy and filled with beauty.
(d) That it was poor and wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What were omnibuses?

5. What is the Louvre?

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