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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 did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?
(a) General Lafayette.
(b) Samuel Morse.
(c) Victor Hugo.
(d) King Louis-Phillipe.

2. At what university did Samuel Morse teach art after leaving Paris?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Yale.
(d) New York University.

3. For what reason did George Healy return to America after eight years in 1842?
(a) To paint a copy of Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Washington.
(b) To paint Andrew Jackson.
(c) To paint John Quincy Adams.
(d) To visit his parents.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?

4. What was the first news article to appear about the daguerreotype in the United States?

5. Who was Benjamin Franklin?

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