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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 did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?
(a) The accomadations.
(b) The vehicles.
(c) The roads.
(d) The food.

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

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

4. What is the Sorbonne?
(a) An art museum.
(b) A highly respected Paris university.
(c) A Paris hospital.
(d) A church.

5. What did many Americans quickly discover about the economy in France as compared to America?
(a) Incomes in France were much lower.
(b) The cost of living in France was much lower than America.
(c) The economy in France was less stable than America.
(d) Taxes in France were much higher.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?

3. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?

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

5. What was Emma Willard's profession?

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