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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four: The Medicals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?
(a) It shows a view of the Louvre many people will never see.
(b) It shows a rare portrait of James Fenimore Cooper.
(c) It shows a great number of American visitors to Paris.
(d) It shows a great number of masterworks all together.

2. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson say was one of the chief draws of Paris to young men?
(a) The availability of cheap education.
(b) The immense number of churches in the city.
(c) Social freedoms.
(d) The large number of single women.

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

4. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?
(a) Degas.
(b) Grandma Moses.
(c) John Trumbull.
(d) Picasso.

5. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) École des Beaux-Arts.
(c) The Palace Royale.
(d) The Sorbonne.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was it who came to believe there was something distinctive in an American face that he could pick out in a crowd?

3. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?

4. Besides creating portraits, what other means of making money did Samuel Morse pursue before moving to Paris?

5. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?

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