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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 the draw of Galignani's for many visiting Americans in Paris?
(a) It was an English bookstore, a gathering place.
(b) It was a art store friendly to visiting Americans.
(c) It was a delightful restaurant.
(d) It was a cheap department store.

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

3. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?
(a) To see the cathedral.
(b) To see all of Paris below it.
(c) To get exercise.
(d) To prove he could.

4. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(b) Charles Sumner.
(c) George Healy.
(d) John Fenimore Cooper.

5. What is the Louvre?
(a) A medical school.
(b) An architecture school.
(c) An art musuem.
(d) An art school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?

2. Who was the queen of Boston society when George Healy was still a budding artist?

3. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?

4. What is the Sorbonne?

5. What household pet was very popular among the French in 1830?

(see the answer key)

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