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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five: American Sensations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was it who came to believe there was something distinctive in an American face that he could pick out in a crowd?
(a) Nathaniel Willis.
(b) George Healy.
(c) Samuel Morse.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

2. To what college did Samuel Morse go?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Yale.

3. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?
(a) Surgery and general medicine.
(b) Surgery and pediatrics.
(c) Surgery and gynecology.
(d) General medicine and geriatric medicine.

4. How did James Jackson Jr. die?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Typhoid fever.

5. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?
(a) More than three hundred years.
(b) Two hundred years.
(c) Less than a hundred years.
(d) Fifty years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Americans find unusual about the length of a day in Paris?

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

3. Who founded Cooperstown in New York?

4. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?

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

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