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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: The Farragut.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What famous politician was a friend of Washburne's?
(a) John Quincy Adams.
(b) Ulysses Grant.
(c) Stephen Douglas.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

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

3. Who seized more than a hundred cannon and fortified themselves on the heights of Montmartre?
(a) National Guard of France.
(b) German army.
(c) American Marines.
(d) Italian army.

4. Did the political catastrophes of 1870-71 stop the influx of Americans to Paris?
(a) Only for a year.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Only for a few months.

5. Who was Stanford White?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A sculptor.
(c) An architect.
(d) A writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What political office did people want Washburne to run for after he left Paris?

2. Who is the only one of New England's immortals, famous writers and intellectuals, who never went to Paris?

3. What was the quickest killer of those locked in Paris during the siege?

4. Who was John Singer Sargent?

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

(see the answer key)

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