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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 did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?
(a) It allowed women to study with men.
(b) It allowed blacks to study in segregrated classrooms.
(c) It allowed blacks to study alongside whites.
(d) It allowed women to study in segregrated classrooms.

2. What did many Americans quickly discover about the economy in France as compared to America?
(a) Incomes in France were much lower.
(b) The economy in France was less stable than America.
(c) The cost of living in France was much lower than America.
(d) Taxes in France were much higher.

3. With whom did Mary Cassatt study art?
(a) Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis.
(b) Thomas Couture.
(c) George Healy.
(d) John Singer Sargent.

4. For what reason did George Healy return to America after eight years in 1842?
(a) To paint John Quincy Adams.
(b) To paint Andrew Jackson.
(c) To visit his parents.
(d) To paint a copy of Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Washington.

5. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?
(a) David Farragut.
(b) John Sanderson.
(c) Melancthon T. Woolsey.
(d) Samuel Morse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two famous artists in Paris were impacted by the fire in Chicago in 1871?

2. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?

3. Who was Stanford White?

4. What profession did Augustus Saint-Gaudens' uncle have?

5. Who was the first American to be admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts?

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