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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. Who is Natty Bumppo?
(a) A character in several James Fenimore Cooper's novels.
(b) Samuel Morse's daughter.
(c) George Healy's uncle.
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes' cousin.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?

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

3. Who was Benjamin Franklin?

4. Who was the American minister to Paris in 1787?

5. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?

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