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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 food.
(c) The roads.
(d) The vehicles.

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

3. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?
(a) That it was both filthy and filled with beauty.
(b) That it was a world rich in history.
(c) That it was poor and wealthy.
(d) That it was filled with complex people.

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

5. Who was Benjamin Franklin?
(a) An American diplomat, politician, writer, and inventor.
(b) An American artist in Paris.
(c) A French immigrant.
(d) A French teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was James Fenimore Cooper's most well known novel prior to his travels to Paris?

2. What type of people did John Collins Warren offer his son upon his journey to Paris?

3. To what college did Samuel Morse go?

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

5. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?

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