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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 Capitol in Washington.
(c) The Sears Tower.
(d) The White House.

2. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?
(a) George Healy.
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(c) Charles Sumner.
(d) John Fenimore Cooper.

3. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To study.
(b) To meet a suitable woman to marry.
(c) To be free of responsibility.
(d) To write.

4. What profession did Ralph Waldo Emerson leave prior to going to Paris in 1833?
(a) Artist.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Preacher.
(d) Teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?

2. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?

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

4. Who was it who came to believe there was something distinctive in an American face that he could pick out in a crowd?

5. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?

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