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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two: Voila Paris!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Emma Willard's profession?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Schoolmistress and textbook writer.
(c) Artist.
(d) Doctor in training.

2. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?
(a) A historian.
(b) A writer.
(c) An artist.
(d) A judge.

3. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?
(a) Victor Hugo.
(b) General Lafayette.
(c) Samuel Morse.
(d) King Louis-Phillipe.

4. What were omnibuses?
(a) Large wheelchairs.
(b) Double-decker boats that traveled the Seine.
(c) Double rider bikes.
(d) Giant, horse-drawn public conveyances.

5. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To study.
(b) To write.
(c) To be free of responsibility.
(d) To meet a suitable woman to marry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Sorbonne?

2. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson say was one of the chief draws of Paris to young men?

3. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?

4. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?

5. What did many Americans quickly discover about the economy in France as compared to America?

(see the answer key)

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