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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. How did James Jackson Jr. die?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Cancer.

2. Why did Victor Hugo move to Belgium in 1851?
(a) To aid his health.
(b) To have the freedom to speak his mind about the new French government.
(c) To join his family.
(d) To escape prosecution.

3. Where was Mary Cassatt born?
(a) London.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Paris.

4. For what reasons did Gussie often avoid social situations early in her marriage?
(a) She was hard of hearing and knew little French.
(b) She was claustrophobic.
(c) She did not like Augustus' friends.
(d) She did not like the French.

5. What did his teacher, Pierre-Charles--Alexandre Louis, encourage James Jackson, Jr. to pursue in his medical education?
(a) Oncology.
(b) Gynecology.
(c) Surgery.
(d) Pathological research.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Washburne get his legal degree?

2. Who was the American minister to Paris in 1787?

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

4. What does abdicate mean?

5. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?

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