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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 was the largest building in America in the 1830s?
(a) The Sears Tower.
(b) The Capitol in Washington.
(c) The Empire State Building.
(d) The White House.

2. What buildings were set on fire by unknown arsonists in Paris in the spring of 1871?
(a) The Louvre and the courthouse.
(b) Hotel de Ville and the Palais de Justice.
(c) Palais de Justice and the courthouse.
(d) Hotel de Ville and the Louvre.

3. What helped bring more visitors to Paris from the rest of Europe?
(a) New vehicles.
(b) New railroads.
(c) New ships.
(d) New public transit.

4. How did Charles Moulton amuse the invaders at his home in May of 1871?
(a) By badly mispronouncing his French.
(b) By singing to the invaders.
(c) By faking a heart attack.
(d) By refusing to allow them to take his animals.

5. Who did Washburne help leave Paris at the beginning of the trouble with Germany?
(a) All Americans.
(b) Americans with German ancestry.
(c) Italians.
(d) Germans.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Saint-Gaudens meet White?

2. To whom does the author of this book compare James Fenimore Cooper's popularity in Paris?

3. What language did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte prefer to speak when he did not want people to understand what he was saying?

4. What took place in April 1834 that allowed many medical students to see gunshot wounds and wounds caused by bayonets first hand?

5. Who commonly wore cameos during the time in which Saint-Gaudens was an apprentice in the art of cutting cameos?

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