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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. 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.

2. Who is Natty Bumppo?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes' cousin.
(b) Samuel Morse's daughter.
(c) George Healy's uncle.
(d) A character in several James Fenimore Cooper's novels.

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 sun shone later in the day during the summer.
(c) The days were much longer in the winter.
(d) The days were much shorter in the summer.

4. 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 visit old friends.
(c) To show it to his children.
(d) Poor health.

5. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?
(a) He did not think it would affect him.
(b) He was wife was expecting another child.
(c) He did not want to leave his friend, Morse.
(d) He was ill, as was his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?

2. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?

3. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?

4. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?

5. Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?

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