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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 dance shocked Mark Twain upon his short visit to Paris?
(a) Tango.
(b) Ballet.
(c) Can-Can.
(d) Waltz.

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

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

4. Who was John Singer Sargent?
(a) Actor.
(b) Composer.
(c) Writer.
(d) Artist.

5. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?
(a) James Monroe.
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(c) John Quincy Adams.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was considered the most important aspect of a cameo's success?

2. What habit did Saint-Gaudens' teachers have that he carried on into his own work?

3. Who was Richard Rush?

4. What American was good friends with Louis Napoleon Bonaparte?

5. From what illness did Mary Cassatt's sister, Lydia, suffer?

(see the answer key)

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